Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated first of its kind, world’s latest MRI facility at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar Haryana, India’s premier institute dedicated to Neurosciences Research and Education.

Key Points:

• With this facility, India embarks on new frontiers of human Neuroscience with a unique and powerful 3T MRI platform of outstanding performance.MRI Scanner Prisma from Siemens, Germany, is being used by several international initiatives, like Brain initiative of USA, the European human brain project.

• This new facility can run intense scanning modalities very fast, which reduces the scanning time for patients by almost a quarter from earlier generation machines. This is being used to develop human cohort data for patients suffering from common brain and mental health disorders including Parkinson’s Disease,Alziemer’s Disease, anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar, anxiety, depression etc.