Biology of Complex Brain Disorders – BCBD
NOTE: Starts with the October 2026 Council round submission dates (Cycle I due dates). This study section was evaluated as part of CSR’s ENQUIRE process which functions to align study sections with advances in science. Learn more about ENQUIRE.
The BCBD study section reviews applications at the interface between molecular and cellular mechanisms and brain disorders for which the basic neurobiological mechanisms, causative genetic factors, and pathological markers associated with the disorder remain uncertain.
Review Dates
A roster for the panel will be posted here, at least 30 days prior to the review meeting
Membership Panel
When the panel is chartered as a standing panel, members will be listed here. Expected in 2026.
Topics
- Applications that study molecular and cellular mechanisms of mental and psychiatric disorders including but not limited to schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, addiction, intellectual and/or developmental disability, sudden infant death syndrome, and restless legs syndrome.
- Applications on the molecular, cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying development of novel, scalable assay platforms to measure neurobiological endpoints with the goal of building a pipeline to be used in the context of target identification and drug discovery.
- Applications that are hypothesis-driven or discovery-based/hypothesis-generating but focused on the critical interface between molecular and cellular mechanisms and disease-associated processes.
- Applications that study the basic biology of candidate gene products and/or potentially relevant signaling cascades and which seek to identify novel cellular and/or molecular interactions associated with these as well as how perturbations might impact upon their normal function.
Shared Interests and Overlaps
There is overlapping and shared interest with the following review panels:
There is shared interest with PMD and BCBD in applications that study complex mental disorders. Molecular and cellular aspects of mental disorders are reviewed in BCBD while those that involve relevant animal models of these disorders are reviewed in PMD
