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Back To: A Meeting of Minds: Using Computers To Study The Brain The Human Brain Project is a multi-institutional federal effort to facilitate neuroscience research and coordination of data and information among various researchers. It was conceived as part of the Decade of the Brain, a congressionally mandated initiative to promote neuroscience and brain research in the 1990s. The 12 federal agencies that are contributing varying am

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Back To: A Meeting of Minds: Using Computers To Study The Brain

The Human Brain Project is a multi-institutional federal effort to facilitate neuroscience research and coordination of data and information among various researchers. It was conceived as part of the Decade of the Brain, a congressionally mandated initiative to promote neuroscience and brain research in the 1990s. The 12 federal agencies that are contributing varying amounts of money or resources to the project are:

The program came into being formally with the April 1993 release of a report--titled "The Human Brain Project: Phase I Feasibility Studies"--on the practicality of the undertaking. This was prepared by the 10 original funding bodies (NHLBI, NIAAA, and NIDR joined in the project after the report was released, and the National Center for Research Resources withdrew).

The first eight research grants, totaling about $4.5 million, were awarded last September. Currently, a second round of ...

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