The Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Italian: Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele) is a university located in Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1996 and is organized in three departments. The Vita-Salute San Raffaele University was first established in 1996 with the Department of Psychology stemming from the Department of Cognitive Science founded by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini in 1993. The program follows the general-cognitive and the experimental-clinical lines of thought. The San Raffaele College and University was fundamentally born as an off-spring of an internationally renown research hospital structure, where students attend basic research laboratories in many research fields, including neurology, neurosurgery, diabetology, molecualar biology, AIDS studies among others. It has expanded since then to include research fields in Cognitive Science and Philosophy. Among the issues that are being studied in this university, beside clinical issues, are: philosophy of science, perception, biolinguistics, generative grammar and vision.