The BRAIN® Initiative https://www.braininitiative.nih.gov is a large-scale effort to push the boundaries of neuroscience research and provide scientists with insights necessary for treating a wide variety of brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy and traumatic brain injury.
The BRAIN® Initiative https://www.braininitiative.nih.gov is a large-scale effort to push the boundaries of neuroscience research and provide scientists with insights necessary for treating a wide variety of brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy and traumatic brain injury.
The effort will be led by Princeton researchers Carlos Brody, the Wilbur H. Gantz III ’59 Professor in Neuroscience and a professor of molecular biology; Jonathan Pillow, an associate professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI); Sebastian Seung, the Evnin Professor in Neuroscience and a professor of computer science; David Tank, the Henry L. Hillman Professor in Molecular Biology and co-director of PNI; Samuel Wang, a professor of molecular biology and PNI; and Ilana Witten, an assistant professor of psychology and PNI.
A separate, $5 million grant was issued to Wang, Pillow and Joshua Shaevitz, a professor of physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, to investigate how genetic susceptibility to autism spectrum disorder acts through neural mechanisms in the cerebellum to produce deficits in flexible and social behavior. Their goal is a physical understanding of how the brain develops the ability to respond flexibly to the environment, from birth to adulthood.
By: NIH News Release