The new Magnetic Resonance Imaging center in the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital is equipped with a 3T Siemens Trio TIM 32 channel system. The center is dedicated to research in cognitive and clinical neurosciences in healthy subjects and patients with neurological and psychiatric diseases. The personal of the NMR Center wishes to help construct a national facility with opportunities for clinical research activity of the highest quality and competitiveness. The scanning facilities and complementary expertise are guaranteed through extensive collaborations supporting the CENIR. The number of clinical research projects which take place at the University Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris 6 and the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris makes this institution a leader in human research in Europe, with 354 active projects and 35.000 patients included.