The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics.
The project, which the administration has been looking to unveil as early as March, will include federal agencies, private foundations and teams of neuroscientists and nanoscientists in a concerted effort to advance the knowledge of the brain’s billions of neurons and gain greater insights into perception, actions and, ultimately, consciousness.
Scientists with the highest hopes for the project also see it as a way to develop the technology essential to understanding diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, as well as to find new therapies for a variety of mental illnesses.
Read more at The New York Times.
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So when someone finds this map, could they please send the mapquest directions to the Senate, House and Cabinet?
They need to know where to implant the chip to connect with Big Brother.
Yeh, because Barak aint got any!
Perhaps Obama would like to donate his own brain to the study.
To # 4 – – Obama ain’t got a brain to donate!