美国国家神经疾病和中风研究所（NINDS）成立于1950年，是组成美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）的27个研究所和中心之一。

NINDS的使命是寻求有关大脑和神经系统的基本知识，并利用这些知识来减轻神经系统的负担。为了实现这一目标，NINDS支持并开展对正常和患病神经系统的基础，转化和临床研究。资助并开展研究培训和职业发展计划，以增加基础，转化和临床神经科学的专业知识，并确保充满活力，才华横溢和多样化的员工队伍，寻求更好地理解，诊断，治疗和预防神经系统疾病。

NINDS的工作人员位于华盛顿特区附近马里兰州郊区的几栋建筑中。NINDS项目主任，科学审查官员，拨款管理官员和大多数行政人员都位于马里兰州罗克维尔的神经科学中心（NSC）大楼。额外的行政人员和大多数校内科学和临床研究人员位于马里兰州贝塞斯达的NIH主校区的10号楼，31号楼和约翰爱德华波特神经科学研究中心。

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) was established in 1950 and is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The mission of NINDS is to seek basic knowledge about the brain and nervous system and use this knowledge to reduce the burden on the nervous system. To achieve this goal, NINDS supports and conducts basic, translational and clinical research on both normal and diseased nervous systems. Fund and conduct research training and career development programs to increase expertise in basic, translational and clinical neuroscience and to ensure a dynamic, talented and diverse workforce seeking to better understand, diagnose, treat and prevent neurological disorders.

NINDS crews are located in several buildings in suburban Maryland, near Washington, D.C. NINDS program directors, scientific review officers, grant administration officers, and most administrative staff are located in the Neuroscience Center (NSC) building in Rockville, Maryland. Additional administrative staff and most of the on-campus science and clinical researchers are located in Building 10, Building 31 and the John Edward Porter Center for Neuroscience Research at the NIH main campus in Bethesda, Maryland.