"Obama proposes brain mapping project"

[applegrove]

Obama proposes brain mapping project

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22007007

"SNIP...................................................

The $100m investment will be used to develop new technologies to investigate how the billions of individual cells in the human brain interact.

Scientists will also focus on how the brain records, stores and processes information, and investigate how brain function is linked to behaviour.

Mr Obama said that while our understanding of the brain was growing, there was still a long way to go.

"As humans we can identify galaxies light years away, we can study particles smaller than the atom, but we still haven't unlocked the mystery of the 3lb of matter that sits between our ears," he said.

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[Deep13]

1. Is this to figure out what's wrong with the Congressional Rs? nt

[WinkyDink]

2. meanwhile, 100M brains explode, wondering why the $$ can't go to SS/Medicare.

[Deep13]

3. Seriously? It could lead to an Alzeimer's cure. nt

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[WinkyDink]

7. Well, you got me on that one; hadn't thought of it. Ha--there's a joke there somewhere.

[Phlem]

4. Man

That list can go on forever. No doubt the Republicans are bipartisan about this. If they could just control minds there wound't be a need for elections.



-p

[Paul E Ester]

5. 2 EU science projects win $1.3 billion each

This is the european version:

MAPPING THE BRAIN

The Human Brain Project will use supercomputers 1,000 times more powerful than those today to create the most detailed model ever of the human brain. Then the project plans to simulate the effects of drugs and treatments on the brain, for a better understanding of neurological diseases and related ailments.

In addition, the increased knowledge about how the brain works — and how it manages billions of processing units and trillions of synapses while consuming no more power than a light bulb — may lead to "a paradigm shift for computing," the European Commission, the European Union's executive branch, said in a statement.

"The economic and industrial impact of such a shift is potentially enormous," the Commission said.

The leader of the project, Henry Markram, a professor of neuroscience at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne in Switzerland, said earlier this month that it could not be undertaken without this kind of funding.

"The pharmaceutical industry won't do this, computing companies won't do this — there's too much fundamental science," Markram said. "This is one project which absolutely needs public funding."

http://news.msn.com/science-technology/2-eu-science-projects-win-dollar13-billion-each?OCID=MSNNWS

[FSogol]

6. Maybe they could map Louie Gohmert's brain first since it would be easier to do.