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Columbia University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry Division of Neuroscience is proud to announce the official unveiling of the The Neuroscience Computer Cluster, a 102 node Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) Cluster Computer. Designed for the rapid execution of large computations, required by brain imaging analysis, the Neuroscience Computer Cluster currently provides Columbia University Researchers the fastest processing capacity of any neuroscience department in the world. Thanks to the philanthropy of Mr. Robert Goldberg and the Diane Goldberg Foundation this new installation provides neuroscience researchers the ability to analyze data at a rate ten times faster than before.
The Paul Janssen Fellowship is awarded to an outstanding young investigator proposing novel translational research in the field of neuroscience as it relates to psychiatric disease and medicine. The Paul Janssen Fellow will be assigned both a basic scientist and a clinical investigator from the faculty at Columbia University to serve as joint
mentors. The fellow will take a basic observation made by the basic science mentor and apply it to the study of disease or treatment with the clinical research mentor.

The purpose of this Columbia Brain Atlas is to increase the availability of scientific knowledge related to the distribution in human brain of receptor populations thought to be involved in psychiatric and neurologic disorders.
These receptor populations are the target of efforts to develop radiologands for use in studies employing positron emission tomography and SPECT.
We are in possession of a large and unique database of postmortem human brain autoradiographic receptor studies that map, in high resolution, the level of binding in slide mounted section suitable for comparison with lower resolution images generated by in vivo scans using PET or SPECT. Investigators can use their own PET or SPECT scans to compare with our postmortem images and to our PET studies to determine the comparability of distribution as an anatomical validation of new ligands. This website is a product of the New York State Psychiatric Institute's Department of Neuroscience and supported by a grant from The Diane Goldberg Foundation.
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