Center for Behavioral Neuroscience

In addition to housing its own Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Yerkes was the original home for the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN), a science and technology center funded by the National Science Foundation.

Yerkes researchers who also are members of the CBN enjoy increasing opportunities for research collaboration with scientists from the CBN’s consortium of eight Atlanta-based institutions. Working together, the researchers foster the CBN’s mission to integrate research and education, specifically in behavioral neuroscience.

More than 90 neuroscientists lead the programs, along with a cadre of some 50 graduate students and 20 postdoctoral researchers. CBN's mission includes:

• research on the neurobiology of social behavior, and the effects of the environment and social experiences on the nervous system;
• an education program designed to recruit and retain women and under-represented minorities to neuroscience education programs; and
  
• knowledge transfer to improve science literacy among the public and to promote CBN discoveries.