“Understanding the brain in all its complexity is impossible for any group to accomplish in isolation.”
-Arthur Toga, Director
We’ve built a diverse team of neurobiologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists, and a worldwide network of collaborators sharing data. Our goal is to increase the pace of discovery in neuroscience by better understanding how the brain works when it’s healthy and what goes wrong in disease.
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Our facility houses two advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanners for data acquisition: a Magnetom Prisma 3T and a Magnetom Terra 7T.
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LONI’s onsite data center features state-of-the-art security technology and can store more than four petabytes of brain imaging data.
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Our Scientific Visualization Group creates elegant maps and animations to illustrate brain structure and function.
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05/09/2023
Melody LaTorre was pregnant when she learned she had brain cancer. In a race against time, a team of Keck Medicine of USC experts worked to save both mother and child.
04/18/2023
USC Stevens INI releases their interactive 2022 annual report
04/06/2023
A USC-led team of researchers find that brain age, a neuroimaging-based assessment of global brain health, may play a role in post-stroke outcomes and could potentially help identify people at risk for poorer outcomes.
02/21/2023
As part of the ENIGMA Consortium, the India ENIGMA Initiative for Global Aging and Mental Health is a worldwide coordinated study of brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease to identify predictive markers in the blood, genome, and epigenome, and to better understand prognosis while supporting personalized risk evaluations.