Slide title: Snapshot of Neuroscience History

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• First NSF awards to study nervous system and neurological responses 1951
• First Neuroscience Departments begin to appear (UCI, UCLA Brain Institute, etc.) 1964
• First Winter Conference on Brain Research 1967
• Society for Neuroscience started, 500 members 1969
• President declares "Decade of the Brain" 1990
• Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP) has 250 members 2006
• Society for Neuroscience has 37,500+ members, 117 chapters 2006
• NSF seeking new era of Interdisciplinary Neuroscience 2007 and beyond

Design by: Adrian Apodaca, National Science Foundation