The BRAIN Initiative: developing technology to catalyse neuroscience discovery
Creators
- Jorgenson, Lyric A.1
- Newsom, William T.2
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Anderson, David J.3
- Bargmann, Cornelia I.4
- Brown, Emery N.5, 6, 7
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Deisseroth, Karl2
- Donoghue, John P.8
- Hudson, Kathy L.1
- Ling, Geoffrey S. F.9
- MacLeish, Peter R.10
- Marder, Eve11
- Normann, Richard A.12
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Sanes, Joshua R.7
- Schnitzer, Mark J.2
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Sejnowski, Terrence J.13
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Tank, David W.14
- Tsien, Roger Y.15
- Ugurbil, Kamil16
- Wingfield, John C.17
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Office of the Director
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Stanford University
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California Institute of Technology
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Rockefeller University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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Harvard University
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Brown University
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Morehouse School of Medicine
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Brandeis University
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University of Utah
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Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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Princeton University
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University of California, San Diego
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University of Minnesota
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Directorate for Biological Sciences
Abstract
The evolution of the field of neuroscience has been propelled by the advent of novel technological capabilities, and the pace at which these capabilities are being developed has accelerated dramatically in the past decade. Capitalizing on this momentum, the United States launched the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative to develop and apply new tools and technologies for revolutionizing our understanding of the brain. In this article, we review the scientific vision for this initiative set forth by the National Institutes of Health and discuss its implications for the future of neuroscience research. Particular emphasis is given to its potential impact on the mapping and study of neural circuits, and how this knowledge will transform our understanding of the complexity of the human brain and its diverse array of behaviours, perceptions, thoughts and emotions.
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© 2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Accepted: 23 December 2014. Published 30 March 2015. The authors thank the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for supporting the publication of this article.Attached Files
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- PMC4387507
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- 57844
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20150527-083028049
Funding
- NIH
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
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2015-05-27Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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