Brain Activity Map Project To Be Object Of Decade-Long Project

Obama Seeking To Boost Study Of Human Brain by John Markoff.  The New York Times.  February 17, 2013.

Seeking to replicate what the Human Genome Project did for genetics, the Obama administration is proposing a decade-long project that will have implications for diseases (Alzheimer's and Parkinson's), artificial intelligence and computers, and fundamental research.  What the administration is proposing is not a static map of the brain--such a project is already underway--but a dynamic map of brain activity, the Brain Activity Map.  Possible approaches to mapping brain activity include use of nanotechnology, i.e. molecule-size machines to measure and store brain activity at the cellular level