NIH BRAIN Initiative
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"On April 2, 2013, the White House announced an initiative called Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN), which includes the participation of the National Science Foundation (NSF), to support and coordinate research on how the brain functions over an organism's lifespan.
"This multiagency Initiative is led by NSF along with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and includes private partners. It holds great promise for addressing fundamental questions about healthy brain function, advancing treatments for brain disorders or traumatic brain injury, and for generating brain-inspired "smart" technologies to meet our future needs as a society."
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- Fred Travis - Your brain is a river, not a rock (37 min)
Your Brain is a River, Not a Rock
How the brain’s own neuroplasticity allows us to develop higher states of consciousness
Fred Travis lecture at Stanford University
- NIH The BRAIN Initiative
"The 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."
- NSF BRAIN Initiative YouTube Channel
- NSF Understanding the Brain
"NSF's goal is to enable scientific understanding of the full complexity of the brain, in action and in context, through targeted, cross-disciplinary investments in research, technology, and workforce development. Understanding the Brain activities promise innovative and integrated solutions to challenges in our ability to predict how collective interactions between brain function and our physical and social environment enable complex behavior."
- Theoretical Biophysicist William Bialek studies the brain
Playlist:
A thought requires roughly a million different brain neurons (3:44)
Observing multiple neurons simultaneously (1:53)
How does our brain use coding to interpret the world? (2:33)