Brain Activity Map Project

Sustainability?

Brain Activity Map Project

Funding

The Debate

• National Institute of Health has a budget of $31 Billion

• Rockefeller University researcher, Leslie Vosshall

• If BAM costs estimated $300 million a year (same as Human Genome Project)
• Estimated 750 university labs lose their grants across the United States

Citations

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Brain Activity Mapping

• Obama's State of the Union Proposal

• 10-year project

• Same goals as Human Genome Project

• Mapping brain cells rather than human genes

• Help understand psychiatric and degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and autism.

American Happiness

• Mapping the human brain could be the first step for the cure to mental illnesses

• 26.8% Adults over 18 suffer a diagnosable mental disorder every year in the U.S.

• In the long run, could result in a happier society!

• Mental Disorders are the leading cause of disability in the United States

First

Build Brain Imaging Tools

United States Economics

• Europe invested 1 Billion Euros for neuroscience research

• Simulate Human Brain on Computer

Then

Able to uncover networks of thousands to millions of brain cells.

Their Plan...

• Advances in technology

• Unspoken Competition?

• HGP created $796 Billion dollars in jobs, medical treatments, increased salaries, and other benefits.

• Obama stated, "For every dollar spent on the Human Genome Project, $140 was returned our economy.

Finally

Observe how recruitment of brain cells in networks is tied to physical and mental disorders.

Populations

• Planet with 7 Billion and Growing

Astronomy Simile

"Don't have to see every brain cell in a network to understand what is going on" -Brown University neuroscientist John Donoghue

• Medical Breakthroughs that cause rapid population growth

• Human Genome Project

• Mapping their Genetic Profile

By: Nikita Kowal