President Obama Proposes Brain Mapping Initiative

Circle Connections: New Products & Services President Barack Obama proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries. He asked Congress to spend $100 million next year to start a project that will explore details of the brain, which contains 100 billion cells and trillions of connections. That's a relatively small investment for the federal government – less than a fifth of what NASA spends every year just to study the sun – but it's too early . . .