Hey OP, check this out.
"Why Obama’s Brain-Mapping Project Matters
Obama calls for $100 million to develop new technologies to understand the brain.
By Susan Young on April 8, 2013
Last week, President Obama officially announced $100 million in funding for arguably the most ambitious neuroscience initiative ever proposed.
The
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, or
BRAIN, as the project is now called, aims to reconstruct the activity of every single neuron as they fire simultaneously in different brain circuits, or perhaps even whole brains."
[
link to www.technologyreview.com]
And
Fact Sheet: BRAIN Initiative
White House Office of the Press Secretary
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/02/fact-sheet-brain-initiative
