The McCausland Center for Brain Imaging (McCausland Center) is a Center of Economic Excellence within the Health Sciences South Carolina collaborative. With its new Siemens 3 Tesla, Magnetic Resonance Imaging system McCausland Center will focus on memory and attention, detection of deception, and brain stroke.

With initial Center of Excellence funds totaling $5 million, $1.5 million gifts from both the Palmetto Richland and Greenville Hospital systems, and $1.75 million in matching funds from Peter J. McCausland, a ’71 USC graduate, McCausland Center will provide USC faculty, as well as collaborative and externally funded researchers, the ability to perform high-resolution brain imaging studies in the Columbia, SC area