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Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 19, 2013 23:59
Obama wants to map the human brain: Administration plans huge $3BILLION ten-year research project
The Obama administration has radical plans for a multi-billion dollar, decade-long study into the workings of human brain, it was revealed today.
According to The New York Times, the Brain Activity Map would be a collaboration between federal agencies, private foundations and leading scientists.
Advocates for the project hope that exhaustive research into the brain’s neurons would produce insights that could be used to understand mental illness, help treat diseases like Parkinson’s and even enable advances in artificial intelligence.
Others have criticized putting large amounts of money into just one project and claimed that the study lacks clear goals.
Details are not yet final but the huge study is expected to be mentioned in the president’s budget proposal next month.
It still isn’t known how much federal money will be needed or proposed for the project in straitened financial times.
A comprehensive map of brain activity has similar scope to the Human Genome Project, which recorded all the genes in human DNA and was completed in 2003 at a cost of $3.8 billion.
In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama described brain research as an example of how the government should ‘invest in the best ideas.’
‘Today our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s,’ said Mr Obama.
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