What is the NBRU?

        The NeuroBehavioral Research Unit (NBRU), located at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, is one of four research units of the Johns Hopkins General Clinical Research Center (GCRC).  The GCRC program was established in 1960 to create and sustain specialized institutional resources in which clinical investigators can observe and study human physiology as well as study and treat disease with innovative approaches.  The Johns Hopkins University has one of the largest, most comprehensive GCRCs in the United States.  The NBRU, under a sub-contractual agreement with the Johns Hopkins GCRC, is a clinical research unit devoted to neurobehavioral analysis with a special emphasis on rare brain disorders. 

        The NBRU has the capability to manage acute medical problems while accommodating patients, including children of all ages, with visual, auditory, communication, and behavioral disorders (Inpatient Beds).  The unit also provides Neuroimaging and Neurobehavioral Assessment research resources to investigators.   Enhancing the major service components of the NBRU, and also located in the KKI facility, are the Audiology Department and the Motion Analysis Laboratory.    Available to all Hopkins faculty and collaborating scientists at other research centers, the NBRU provides not only a local, but a needed national research resource.

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