The National Institutes of Health will award $46 million in grants to support the government’s cognitive research initiative known as BRAIN, or Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies.
The money will go to supporting projects and tools to enable further understanding of the workings of the btain.
“The human brain is the most complicated biological structure in the known universe,” said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, MD, in announcing the grants. “We’ve only just scratched the surface in understanding how it works — or, unfortunately, doesn’t quite work when disorders and disease occur.
President Obama launched the BRAIN Initiative this past year as a large-scale effort to equip researchers with fundamental insights necessary for treating a wide variety of brain disorders like Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy and traumatic brain injury.