Feds Developing Large-Scale Brain Activity Mapping Research Project

The federal government is in the process of developing a large-scale brain activity mapping project that would attempt to chart all activity circuits within the human brain. While a large-scale program to map brain activity has not yet been formally announced by the White House, reports indicate interest is rooted to a white paper submitted to its Office of Science and Technology Policy. In President Obama’s State of the Union address on February 11, 2013, he noted that research to map brain activity is a worthy investment, on the scale of the Human Genome Project. On March . . .