White House Unveils BRAIN Initiative to Map Mind’s Cells and Pathways

President Obama announced on Tuesday that he wants to launch a $100 million project that will map the human brain. The project, labeled the “Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies,” or more literally, the BRAIN Initiative, will seek to figure out “how individual cells and complex neural circuits operate in time and space,” according to the official explanation of the project’s goals published by the National Institutes of Health.