Slide title: Snapshot of Neuroscience NSF History

Slide words:

• First NSF awards to study nervous system and neurological responses 1951
• Behavioral and Neural Science division (BNS) established 1976
• Division refocuses and expands to 8 programs* 1982-89
• Behavioral Neuroendocrinology established 1988
• BNS splits & Division of Integrative Biology & Neuroscience (IBN) formed 1992
• First workshop on steroids and brain function 1993
• First meeting of the new Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology 1997
• NSF: Neuroscience is everywhere! 2007

* Psychobiology--Animal behavior; Neurobiology--Sensory Systems; Integrative Neural Systems--Behavioral Neuroscience; Developmental; Molecular & Cellular; Synaptic Mechanisms; Computational, Cognitive & Theoretical Neuroscience--Computational Neuroscience

Design by: Adrian Apodaca, National Science Foundation