The BRAIN Initiative® seeks to deepen understanding of the inner workings of the human mind and to improve how we treat, prevent, and cure disorders of the brain.
Key Goals
Develop new technologies to explore how the brain’s cells and circuits interact at the speed of thought, ultimately uncovering the complex links between brain function and behavior.
Advance Neurotechnologies
Accelerate the development and application of new neurotechnologies.
Support multi-disciplinary teams and stimulate research to rapidly enhance current neuroscience technologies and catalyze innovative scientific breakthroughs.
Facilitate Dynamic Imaging
Enable researchers to produce a dynamic picture of the brain functioning in real time.
Stimulate collaborative efforts to improve current imaging technologies and create new methods to visualize brain function at higher resolution and across wide space and time scales.
Explore Brain Functionality
Explore how the brain records, processes, uses, stores, and retrieves vast quantities of information.
Integrate expertise from diverse fields of science for large-scale interrogation and monitoring of brain cells and circuits in real-time and across a variety of model systems.
Link Function & Behavior
Shed light on the complex links between brain function and behavior, incorporating new theories and computational models.
Uncover links between brain activity, behavior, and cognition with precise interventional tools, novel informatics methods, and pioneering models of how the brain functions.
Advance Consumer Applications
Help bring safe and effective products to patients and consumers.
Enhance the transparency of the regulatory landscape to promote the advancement of safe neurological medical devices.
Transformative Advances
Since its launch in 2013, numerous exciting developments in neurotechnology and our understanding of the brain have been made by scientists across the United States and globe.
