WHAT IS THE NIH BRAIN INITIATIVE?
The NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative
Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is part of a new Presidential focus aimed
at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. By accelerating the
development and application of innovative technologies, researchers will be
able to produce a revolutionary new dynamic picture of the brain that, for the
first time, shows how individual cells and complex neural circuits interact in
both time and space. Long desired by researchers seeking new ways to treat,
cure, and even prevent brain disorders, this picture will fill major gaps in
our current knowledge and provide unprecedented opportunities for exploring
exactly how the brain enables the human body to record, process, utilize,
store, and retrieve vast quantities of information, all at the speed of
thought.