OBAMA, DARPA, GSK AND ROCKEFELLER’S $4.5B B.R.A.I.N. INITIATIVE – BETTER SIT WHEN YOU READ

by Silviu “Silview” Costinescu

DNA harvesting, mRNA technologies, mind-reading and more – this was the official race start signal at the Transhumanist Olympics, all the way back in 2013

The vision for the BRAIN Initiative is to combine these areas of research into a coherent, integrated science of cells, circuits, brain and behavior.

• Generate a census of brain cell types
• Create structural maps of the brain
• Develop new, large-scale neural network recording capabilities
• Develop a suite of tools for neural circuit manipulation
• Link neuronal activity to behavior
• Integrate theory, modeling, statistics and computation with neuroscience experiments
• Delineate mechanisms underlying human brain imaging technologies
• Create mechanisms to enable collection of human data for scientific research
• Disseminate knowledge and training

Source: NIH