A working group at NIH, co-chaired by Cornelia ''Cori'' Bargmann of The Rockefeller University and William Newsome of Stanford University, would work on defining the goals and develop a multi-year plan to achieve them that included cost estimates. The Obama administration recently announced a large-scale initiative to develop new technologies to 'map' the complex neural circuitry of the human brain. The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity. As The New York Times points out, the project is designed 'to do for the brain what.

The goals of the work are unclear at this point. The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a decades-long project to map the inner workings of the brain. ApPresident Obama today proposed the BRAIN Initiative, a 100 million brain-mapping project. And he wants a study of the ethical, legal and societal implications of the research. The president proposes 100 million research investment to map the human brain. He also wants private companies, universities and philanthropists to partner with the federal agencies in support of the research. Obama wants the initial $100 million investment to support research at the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation. The idea, which Obama first proposed in his State of the Union address, would require the development of new technology that can record the electrical activity of individual cells and complex neural circuits in the brain ''at the speed of thought,'' the White House said. BRAIN stands for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies. The last twenty years have seen explosive growth in the development and use of noninvasive brain mapping methods, predominantly MRI, complemented by MEG and electroencephalography (EEG), to investigate the human brain under normal and pathological conditions, and across the human lifespan.

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