Conte Centers PNI is home to several Conte Centers, which are funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and focused on advancing the understanding of mental illness. Thalamus Conte Center The Center is aimed at advancing our understanding on the role of higher order thalamus in cognition. Higher order thalamus is perturbed in schizophrenia, which may contribute to cognitive impairments and leading symptoms. Gaining a mechanistic understanding of thalamic function and interactions with cortex will be fundamental for developing therapeutic interventions that will target higher order thalamus in severe cases of schizophrenia. Latent Cause Inference in Health and Illness Conte Center A Princeton-led collaboration with Rutgers to enhance the understanding of mental health disorders through the lens of computational psychiatry.
