World's most sophisticated MRI facility launched at NBRC

Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh on Friday launched the world's most sophisticated MRI facility at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar in Haryana. It is India's premier institute dedicated to Neuroscience Research and Education. This facility is latest and first of its kind in India. 
On the occasion, the Minister said, with this facility, India embarks on new frontiers of human Neuroscience with a unique and powerful 3-T MRI platform of outstanding performance. He informed that MRI Scanner Prisma from Siemens, Germany, is being used by several international initiatives, like Brain initiative of USA, the European human brain project. Dr Singh said, 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 and depression.
Later, Dr. Jitendra Singh took a high-level meeting with the Director and senior scientists and officials of the National Brain Research Centre and asked them to come out with a Special Intervention Study on Alzheimer. The Minister underlined the need for a single-subject world class research at the Centre, which promotes translational research with a mission to discover rationale therapies and cures for brain disorders.