Bangur Institute of Neurosciences

Bangur Institute of Neurosciences, also known as the Bangur Institute of Neurology and abbreviated BIN, is a government-run apex superspeciality institute/hospital located at 52/1A, Sambhu Nath Pandit Street, Bhawanipur, Kolkata, West Bengal.B.l.N. was founded in 1970 in the newly constructed two-storeyed building with twenty indoor bed facilities sanctioned by the Government of West Bengal as an institution for postgraduate training and research in the different disciplines of the speciality of neurological sciences.The institute is adjacent to and functionally attached to IPGMER and SSKM Hospital. The facilities of the institution were further expanded in 1975 and its indoor bed strength was raised from 20 to 70, out of which 38 beds were allotted to the Department of Neurosurgery. The institute is affiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Science. This is a government-sponsored neurological institute and a training centre in the field of neuroscience in West Bengal. Patients are regularly referred here from various hospitals in West Bengal and adjoining states. This hospital's research activities include studies into strokes, cognitive neuroscience, movement disorders, epilepsy, neuromuscular conditions (myasthenia), developmental disorders of the brain, Wilson's disease, electrophysiology, botulinium toxin, and neurogenetics.

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