Worldwide initiatives to advance brain research

Sten Grillner; Nancy Ip; Christof Koch; Walter Koroshetz; Hideyuki Okano; Miri Polachek; Mu-Ming Poo; Terrence J Sejnowski

doi:10.1038/nn.4371

Worldwide initiatives to advance brain research

Nat Neurosci. 2016 Aug 26;19(9):1118-22. doi: 10.1038/nn.4371.

Authors

Sten Grillner¹, Nancy Ip², Christof Koch³, Walter Koroshetz⁴, Hideyuki Okano⁵, Miri Polachek⁶, Mu-Ming Poo⁷, Terrence J Sejnowski⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
² Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
³ Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁴ National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
⁵ Department of Physiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan and the Laboratory for Marmoset Neural Architecture, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan.
⁶ Israel Brain Technologies, Ramat HaSharon, Israel.
⁷ Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, China.
⁸ Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA.

PMID: 27571190
PMCID: PMC6047900
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4371

Abstract

To highlight worldwide efforts to fund neuroscience research and address the growing threat of brain disorders, Nature Neuroscience asked leaders of six global brain initiatives to write about their programs.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / economics
Biomedical Research / methods
Biomedical Research / trends*
Brain Diseases / economics
Brain Diseases / epidemiology
Brain Diseases / therapy*
Brain* / physiology
Brain* / physiopathology
Global Health / economics
Global Health / trends*
Humans

Grants and funding

R01 EB009282/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/United States