One of these initiatives is B.R.A.I.N. (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies). This is a collaborative project in the U.S. to accelerate development of new technologies for understanding the human brain's structure, functions and more importantly malfunctions. The aim is to cease the increasing number of mortality and burden of disease due to neurological disorders.
President Obama announced the initiative in April. Government and private organizations both contributed a high sum to it to get the project going. Critics say that there is not enough money to accomplish the goals, however, the leaders claim that the first funding is only figurative and the timetable and all costs are being throughly discussed just now.
The Human Brain Project (HBP) is the European pendant to B.R.A.I.N. and they have a very similar aim: to construct new technologies in order to facilitate neuroscientific research. One major goal is to reconstruct the human brain in a computer-based simulation. In addition, in order to identify and cure neurological diseases, it is crucial for this project to develop innovative computing and scanning.
sources:
http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/
https://www.humanbrainproject.eu
http://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-human-brain-project-wins-top-european-science-/
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