Sentences with phrase «national brain mapping»

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The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

He emphasizes that NIH's plan applies only to its own portion of the BRAIN project — neither the National Science Foundation, which has committed $ 20 million to the project, nor the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which has pledged $ 50 million, has released a road map for their research, or explained how they are setting priorities.

The US National Institutes of Health has begun to fund a major effort, the Human Connectome Project, to generate a comprehensive map of large - scale brain connections in humans.

Dr. Parsons had a unique talent to link novel approaches in analytical chemistry with sophisticated techniques in behavioral pharmacology and neurocircuitry, and this approach opens the door to novel, out - of - the - box studies of brain mapping that are recognized as the key to new advances in our understanding of the circuitry of the brain, a major new initiative of the National Institutes of Health.

In work funded by the UK's Wellcome Trust and the National Institutes of Health in the USA, researchers at the University of Cambridge have used magnetic resonance imaging to map the connections in the brain and shown that the strength of those connections correlates with a person's intelligence.

After Obama's State of the Union speech in which he mentioned investing in science and alluded to scientists who are mapping the human brain to unlock Alzheimer's, ``... Francis S. Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, may have inadvertently confirmed the plan when he wrote in a Twitter message: «Obama mentions the #NIH Brain Activity Map in #SOTU.»&rbrain to unlock Alzheimer's, ``... Francis S. Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, may have inadvertently confirmed the plan when he wrote in a Twitter message: «Obama mentions the #NIH Brain Activity Map in #SOTU.»&rBrain Activity Map in #SOTU.»»

Now, four years after Sporns» initial paper, the National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research is launching the $ 30 million Human Connectome Project (HCP) in hopes of creating a comprehensive map of a healthy adult brain by 2015.