Improved Brain Health for All! (update on the BRAIN initiative)

adapted from Figure 3 (Koroshetz et al., 2018). Magnetic resonance angiography highlighting the vasculature in the human brain in high resolution, without the use of any contrast agent, on a 7T MRI scanner. Courtesy of Plimeni& Wald (MGH).[ed. note: here ' s a great summary onIf, how, and when fMRI goes clinical, by Dr. Peter Bandettini.]TheJournal of Neuroscience recently published a paywalled article onThe State of the NIH BRAIN Initiative.This paper reviewed the research and technology development funded by the “moonshot between our ears” [anewly coined phrase]. The program has yielded a raft ofpublications (461 to date) since its start in 2014. Although the early emphasis hasnotbeen onHuman Neuroscience, NIH is ramping up its funding for human imaging and neuromodulation.They ' ve developed aNeuroethics Division, because......neuroscience research in general and the BRAIN Initiative specifically, with its focus on unraveling the mysteries of the human brain, generate many important ethical questions about how these new tools could be responsibly incorporated into medical research and clinical practice.I don ' t think most of the current grant recipients are focused on “unraveling the mysteries of the human brain”, however. They ' re interested in cell types, circuit diagrams, and monitoring and manipulating neural activity in model organisms such as Drosophila, zebrafish, and mice. There are aspirations for aHuman Cell Atlas, but many of the other tools are ve...
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