Descartes said "I think, therefore I am". At Rossum we say "Let us think of who you are!" The fascination with our cognitive abilities, the need to understand and assuage our thoughts is as old as civilization itself.

Humanity's quest to demystify thought began in Neolithic times, but it wasn't until the Roman physician Galen observed loss of mental faculties in brain-damaged patients that scholars began to remap the source of human faculties from the heart to the brain. With the onset of surgery during the Early Middle Ages, neurosurgery quickly defined itself as a crucial discipline, allowing for accurate descriptions of disorders such as meningitis, intracranial thrombophlebitis, and mediastinal tumors, and contributing to modern neuropharmacology.

In the twenty-first century, Rossum is the proud inheritor of a millenium of medical research, representing the pinnacle of achievement in cognitive, behavioral, and affective neuroscience. We continue to make history in the science of the mind with no less ambitious a goal than the reshaping of mankind to create a better tomorrow.