The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the leading federal agency for research on disorders of the nervous system. The mission of NINDS is to seek fundamental knowledge about the brain and nervous system and to use that knowledge to reduce the burden of neurological disease.
NINDS supports and conducts basic, translational, and clinical research on a wide range of topics important to understanding how the normal brain functions and what goes wrong in neurological diseases. In addition, NINDS invests significant resources into training future generations of neurologists, neuroscientists, and other health care providers.