Seize the neuroscience moment

There seems to be an abundance of neuroscience initiatives right now. This year, the European Commission launched a Human Brain Project, and the U.S. government announced its Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project. They join other recent neuroscience efforts ac...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2013-11, Vol.342 (6158), p.533-533
Main Author: Leshner, Alan I
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abundance
Biomedical Research - economics
Biomedical Research - trends
Brain
Brain - physiology
Capital Financing
Communities
Economics
Governments
Human
Humans
Medical research
Neurosciences
Neurosciences - economics
Neurosciences - trends
Seizing
United States
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Summary:There seems to be an abundance of neuroscience initiatives right now. This year, the European Commission launched a Human Brain Project, and the U.S. government announced its Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project. They join other recent neuroscience efforts across the world aimed at advancing our understanding of the brain. Exploiting these diverse initiatives to yield scientific, clinical, and economic benefits, however, will require not only political and policy-maker support but also endorsement and extensive involvement by the neuroscience community, which already saw a "Decade of the Brain" come and go about 20 years ago, with little direct result. What's different now?
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.1247343