Virtual Tour
Watch a slide show of the virtual tour
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| Welcome to the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology. We are located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. | When you visit our lab, you'll enter at 525 East 68th Street (between York Avenue & the East River). Once you enter the building, you'll be asked to present a picture ID. |
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| You'll take a right at the information booth and pass the gift shop. Follow the sign to the "H" Baker Pavilion/F Wing elevators, which are on the right side. Take the "H" elevators to floor 12A. | You'll see the Sackler Institute Suite when you step off the elevator. Come in to meet us and learn about our projects. |
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| We will greet you in our waiting room. Children are invited to play with the toys there. We will explain the research study to you and will read a consent form. A consent form explains the study. If you are interested in participating you will sign the consent form before beginning the study. | Research volunteers might be in a study that has a camera that records eye movements while playing a game. People just rest their chins in a cup as seen. |
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| Research volunteers who take part in a MRI study, would play computer games using buttons like these. The MRI itself involves taking pictures of the brain while people play these games or watch videos. | One game they might play while here involves following where the fish swims! |
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| Another game they might play is called Wack-The-Mole, where you wack the mole in the garden but not any vegetables! | Research volunteers who take part in a MRI study, wear headphones to hear us over the noises of the MRI. The headphones also let you listen to a movie during the MRI. |
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| These are some of the movies volunteers might watch, but if they have a favorite DVD movie they are welcome to bring it to watch. | Some young children like to play in a toy tunnel before they try the MRI. |
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| Research volunteers get to practice in a pretend MRI. Here you see someone lying down on the MRI table. A screen is being placed in front of her so that she can watch a movie and play computer games. | Now, she is comfortably watching a movie while we take some MRI pictures. |
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| Another type of study volunteers might take part measures brain activity by having people wear a cap with little sponges. These caps are comfortable and elastic. Anyone can wear them, even very young babies. | We process all of the data to find out how brains work or change with development in babies, children, teens, and adults. |
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| We hope you have enjoyed the virtual tour. Come visit us again. If you're interested in more information, please call us at 212-746-4886. | Thanks from all of us at the Sackler Institute! |
| Photographs by Michael Weinstein Photography | |