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
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