The Translational Neuroscience Program is a program within the Department of Psychiatry in Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) at the University of Pittsburgh that involves research and training activities of relevance to both basic and clinical neuroscience.

The Department of Psychiatry of the University of Pittsburgh and its affiliate hospital, the Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH) of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), has more than 220 primary faculty members trained in a wide range of disciplines that encompass clinical expertise across brain and behavioral disorders and the lifespan and a number of basic science domains. Priorities for the Department include first and foremost, to provide the highest quality care for the individuals who seek clinical services and their families; second, to promote the career development of faculty, trainees, and staff to further advance the level of expertise in all areas; and third, to pursue the discovery and dissemination of new scientific knowledge in order to develop personalized and preventative treatments for mental illness and addictive disorders.

The Department of Neuroscience within the University of Pittsburgh’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences provides outstanding undergraduate and graduate education with innovative independent and collaborative research, a well-rounded curriculum, and a seminar series by the world’s most renowned leaders in the field of neuroscience.

The University of Pittsburgh Center for Neuroscience (CNUP) oversees all neuroscience-related activities on campus. CNUP is a multidisciplinary center with members whose primary appointments are in 16 different departments. Their research interests span the breadth of neuroscience, and a number of concentration areas involve diverse groups of scientists. CNUP has a sense of community highlighted by interactive and collaborative aspects in many of our research programs. One of the major responsibilities of CNUP is to oversee doctoral training in neuroscience at Pitt.

The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) is a joint venture of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. The center leverages the strengths of the University of Pittsburgh in basic and clinical neuroscience and those of Carnegie Mellon in cognitive and computational neuroscience to support a coordinated cross-university research and educational program of international stature. In addition to the PhD program in Neural Computation, CNBC sponsors a graduate certificate program in cooperation with a wide variety of affiliated PhD programs. Within the CNBC, over 200 world-class faculty and trainees are investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms that give rise to biological intelligence and behavior. Research topics include affective, cognitive, linguistic, perceptual, motor and social systems in both normal and disordered populations, as well as computational neuroscience.