From the BRAIN Initiative website:
What is the NIH BRAIN Initiative?
The NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is part of a new Presidential focus aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. By accelerating the development and application of innovative technologies, researchers will be able to produce a revolutionary new dynamic picture of the brain that, for the first time, shows how individual cells and complex neural circuits interact in both time and space. Long desired by researchers seeking new ways to treat, cure, and even prevent brain disorders, this picture will fill major gaps in our current knowledge and provide unprecedented opportunities for exploring exactly how the brain enables the human body to record, process, utilize, store, and retrieve vast quantities of information, all at the speed of thought.
If you are interested in participating in one of the remaining ACD BRAIN working groups, upcoming meeting dates are as follows:
Meeting Information
Participate via phone:
- Dial Toll Free: 888-469-0870,
Passcode: BRAINTo make comments during the public comments portion of any open session, please email Dr. Lyric Jorgenson in advance of the meeting date.
Register to attend in person:
(locations vary and capacity is limited based upon availability)
- July 29, 2013, Boston, MA
Focus: Computation, theory, and big data- August 29, 2013, Minneapolis, MN
Focus: Human measurements and analysis
For more information, please visit http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/.
