The mission of the Neuroscience Research Institute (NRI) is to foster knowledge and understanding of the nervous system by serving as a center for scientific research breakthroughs. Investigators in the NRI recognize that the interests of neuroscience extend broadly from repair and prevention of human disease to the principles that underlie the earliest nervous systems, from the human mind to the single molecular building blocks of the brain. Gifts to the Neuroscience Research Institute support faculty, students, research, programs, and cutting-edge research facilities dedicated to revealing basic biological processes in neuroscience.