Tommy S

"Sure - that would be great, and hopefully soon that will happen. My hope is that the bulk of this initiative will be picked up by private funders and inspire corporate research spending (think of the money GE, Leica, etc could make selling the tools that are invented with this initiative), and federal institutes can focus efforts on research questions." - Tommy S

"These comments are nearly entirely irrelevant. The responses appear to be based on an old version of this project, which is *not* what the BRAIN initiative is actually going to be about. The project is focused on *building tools* to help scientists discover new things about the brain. It doesn't claim to be able to answer questions directly - that's the job of the labs which will use these tools in exciting ways. While certainly these tools will ennable incredible new discoveries, the project doesn't set as an end goal "understand how functional map of the brain", etc. This is focused on developing new technologies and improving existing ones (fMRI, for example). See White House infographic: http://www.whitehouse.gov/infogra..." - Tommy S