The recording and mapping of the brain in action has begun! It didn’t take long to get funding after the discussion to map the brain began at a conference in 2011. The project’s title is an acronym, say it- BRAIN. Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies.
“The effort will require the development of new tools not yet available to neuroscientists and,eventually, perhaps lead to progress in treating diseases like Alzheimer’s and epilepsy and traumatic brain injury. It will involve both government agencies and private institutions,” John Markoff and James Gorman write in the New York Times today.
President Obama is calling this the grand challenge 21st century. Private institutions and three government agencies, the the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation will come together, and a “dream team,” and led by Cori Bargmann of Rockefeller University and William Newsome of Stanford University, will be charged with coming up with a plan, a time frame, specific goals and cost estimates for future budgets.”
100 million dollars will start the project in 2014 with further funding coming in as they proceed. This first funding will spur research “to invent and refine new technologies to understand the human brain.” One goal is to facilitate a paradigm shift in how we study and understand how the human brain works. Advances in neuroscience and technology beyond our imagination at this time will lead the way. Currently for example, the measuring instruments are unable to measure the complexity and enormity of all the neuronal firing that goes on in the working brain.
I can’t avoid the sense of excitement about the involvement of women in lead positions in this movement. There are two are mentioned in this article. Miyoung Chun, a molecular biologist who is vice president of scientific programs at the Kavli Foundation, organized the conference where this idea began. Chun believes that the greatest benefits and discoveries will come from interdisciplinary fields coming together, and so gathered neuroscientists and nanoscientists in London in September 2011.
Scientific Researcher Cori Bargmann, PhD, co-leading the dream team is a woman. She received the 2012 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, the 2012 NYU/Dart Biotechnology Achievement Award, the 2009 Richard Lounsbery Award from the U.S. and French National Academies of Sciences, the 2004 Dargut and Milena Kemali International Prize for Research in Basic and Clinical Neurosciences, the 2000 Charles Judson Herrick Award for comparative neurology.
Kimberly Wulfert, PhD, Licensed Psychologist & Coach in Ventura & Ojai California, virtually
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