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Obama's
Brain
project
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The president's advisors call the
BRAIN project ambitious even
audacious.
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It aims to produce dynamic pictures of
the brain that show, in the words of a
White House statement
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how individual cells and complex
neural circuits interact
at the speed of thought.
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Announcing the programme, Barack
Obama said humans could identify
distant galaxies
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and study subatomic particles,
but still had a limited understanding
of the brain
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There's this enormous mystery waiting to
be unlocked. The BRAIN Initiative will
change that by giving scientists the tools
they need
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to get a dynamic picture of the brain in
action and better understand how we think
and how we learn and how we remember."
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That knowledge, he said, would be
transformative: families no longer
helpless at the onset of Parkinson's
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and war veterans able to reverse the
effects of traumatic brain injury.
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The administration reckons it costs
around $500bn a year to treat the various
conditions this project hopes to address. It
believes that technological advances
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in data processing and revolutionary new
techniques like optogenetics mean that,
for the first time, this hugely ambitious
research is actually possible
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Paul Adams reports 05 April 2013