[11] It has been designed to create a relaxing environment volunteers, with large windows and timber structures.

[7][12] Cardiff University's School of Psychology created CUBRIC to facilitate interdisciplinary brain research, using multiple neuroimaging machines and laboratory techniques.

[15] The centre aims to investigate neurological aspects of conditions such as epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia,[13][16] multiple sclerosis, and dementia.

[5] One of the centre's first major research projects in the new building involved the study of Huntington's disease.

[17] The connectome scanner generates a map of the axons in white matter, connections of the brain, by measuring the nearby movement of water molecules to 1⁄1000 millimetre (3.9×10−5 in) precision.