
Obama assembles “dream team” ~ The BRAIN initiative aims to not only map the brain’s 10 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections, but understand how signals travel along these circuits and what modulates those signals, Ngai said .. NIH, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, along with private foundations such as the Kavli Foundation and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will partner to support the research, which will be guided by a “dream team” of scientists led by Dr. Cornelia “Cori” Bargmann of The Rockefeller University and Dr. William Newsome of Stanford University.
“The Brain Activity Map is a very promising project for developing revolutionary new tools to advance neuroscience and to enable improved understanding of neurological diseases,” Alivisatos said.” It is exciting that the nation will lean forward to make progress in this important area." UC Berkeley NewsCenter
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