February 20, 2013

Obama Supports 'Human Brain Map' Project

John Markoff, New York Times


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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.

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