US government on 3 April 2013 announced a new research initiative
called Brain (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative
Neurotechnologies) which is designed to revolutionise the understanding
of the human brain. Launched with approximately 100 million US dollars
in the President's Fiscal Year 2014 Budget, the BRAIN initiative
ultimately aims to help researchers find new ways to treat, cure, and
even prevent brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, and
traumatic brain injury.
The BRAIN Initiative will accelerate the development and application
of new technologies that will enable researchers to produce dynamic
pictures of the brain that show how individual brain cells and complex
neural circuits interact at the speed of thought.
The scientists possess the capability to study individual neurons and
figure out the main functions of certain areas of the brain, but a
human brain contains almost a hundred billion neurons making trillions
of connections.
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