What Has the BRAIN Initiative Accomplished?

Golgi-stained neurons from somatosensory cortex in the macaque monkey. Pr495du, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.5 license.

Now at the midpoint, the BRAIN Initiative’s impacts on neuroscience are beginning to come into fruition. As of January, 2018, the National Institutes of Health had awarded 368 BRAIN grants to more than 500 investigators, resulting in over 330 publications.

So, what have we learned from the BRAIN Initiative so far? What’s currently in development that could transform our understanding of the brain? And what will the next five years bring?

See my latest article at Neuroscience Quarterly: BRAIN-Inspired Science: A Mid-Initiative Report.