Robert B. Darnell
Jeffrey M. Friedman
Ulrike Gaul
Charles D. Gilbert
Paul Greengard
Mary E. Hatten
Nathaniel Heintz
Mary Jeanne Kreek
Bruce S. McEwen
Fernando Nottebohm
Jurg Ott
Donald W. Pfaff
Sidney Strickland
Leslie Vosshall
Michael W. Young

Brain and behavioral disorders, including drug and alcohol abuse, afflict approximately 50 million Americans, and psychiatric illness accounts for 20 percent of all hospitalizations in the United States. Real progress in the prevention and treatment of neurological disorders will depend on major breakthroughs in understanding the brain's basic biology, breakthroughs that are imminent due to the latest developments in research technology. Laboratories in the center develop and apply the latest technology to explore questions about the mind and brain that were virtually out of reach just a few years ago. Established in 1998 through the generosity of the late Leon Levy, who was a Rockefeller trustee, the center is a nexus for the work of laboratories studying neural systems, neurogenetics, neural development and neurochemistry. The Leon Levy Foundation continues to provide support for the center's efforts.