Neuroscience dream team sets stage for brain research
Goals include creating structural maps of the brain, linking neuron activity to human behaviour
Add BT as a preferred source
Washington
THE motley group included men and women, old and young, in sweatshirts and three-piece suits, shod in socks and sandals, wingtips and heels. They were a kind of neuroscience dream team, more than 100 scientists gathered in a Bethesda, Maryland hotel not to talk about their latest breakthroughs - there weren't any yet - but to meet and get to know one another.
Eighteen months after US President Barack Obama launched an ambitious brain-research initiative, likened by some to the moon shot of the 1960s, federal officials are trying to create a new model for neuroscience research, one that emphasises innovation and cooperation across specialities and institutions. To do that, they threw a two-day "kickoff" for scientists fortunate enough to have received the first funding slices of what is likely to be a multibillion-dollar federal pie.
Share with us your feedback on BT's products and services
