https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuxLDRsSQcVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: President Obama Speaks on the BRAIN Initiative and American Innovation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuxLDRsSQc)

President Barack Obama launches the BRAIN Initiative on April 2, 2013. The video in this post was titled “President Obama Speaks on the BRAIN Initiative and American Innovation.”

…”President Obama unveils a bold new research initiative designed to revolutionize our understanding of the human brain, and discusses the importance of investing in American innovation to create jobs and strengthen our economy.”

Published on YouTube by the White House April 2, 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIY_3QddeH0Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Walter Koroshetz – Early Days of the NIH BRAIN initiative (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIY_3QddeH0) Walter Koroshetz presentation at Neuroscience BioConference Live [online] conference on Mar 19, 2015.

From Labroots synopsis: “The major funded efforts at this time fit into 3 main categories; 1) defining the components of brain circuits, i.e., a cell census; 2) developing and testing tools for recording high density information on circuit structure, activity, and manipulating circuit activity; 3) novel technology for noninvasive interrogation and manipulation of circuit activity (next generation imaging).”

 

The Fattah Neuroscience Initiative (FNI) is a policy initiative designed to make major progress in understanding the human brain by intensifying federal research efforts across brain disease, disorder, injury, cognition and development.

The initiative aims to coordinate research across agencies and draw upon public-private partnerships and the world of academia. Congressman Fattah is the lead Democrat on the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee overseeing federal expenditures in the science agencies.

 

 

Chaka Fattah & Neuroscience Initiative

From Congressman Fattah’s website

What is the Fattah Neuroscience Initiative?

The Fattah Neuroscience Initiative (FNI) is an innovative, non-incremental policy initiative designed to make major progress in understanding the human brain by intensifying, in a collaborative fashion, federal research efforts across brain disease, disorder, injury, cognition and development. The initiative aims to coordinate research across agencies and draw upon public-private partnerships and the world of academia. The initiative promotes research and discovery across brain cognition, development, disease and injury.

Why concentrate on neuroscience?

Although our brains control all that we do, think and comprehend, we have only a burgeoning understanding of this enigmatic organ. In many ways the brain represents the final frontier of scientific research. In the natural human quest ...

NIH director Francis Collins, M.D., discusses some of the 58 projects funded in the first wave of grants awarded by the NIH under the BRAIN Initiative. He spoke at a press conference announcing the awards, September 30, 2014.

Video published on October 2, 2014  by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6g_TpQsL0I

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkYEfWazIfcVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Picturing the Brain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkYEfWazIfc)

Dr. Paul Thompson talks about the work that he does at the Lab of Neuro Imaging (LONI) at UCLA.

He discusses brain health, the latest brain imaging technology and projects like ENIGMA, which involves a world-wide effort to create a brain database.

Published on July 13m 2013 by NIBIBgov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9oKjAI46ioVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: William Newsome: The US BRAIN Initiative: What, Why and How? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9oKjAI46io)

Dr. William Newsome, co-chair of the NIH Science Advisory Committee, describes what the BRAIN Initiative is, why it is important, and how it can be achieved.

Newsome’s talk was part of “Neuroscience Mini-symposium: From Perception to Decision”, co-sponsored by NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, and School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University.

Published on Jul 14, 2014 by NYU Shanghai Research