Brain science has attracted global attention in recent years as an area of science with the unique potential to revolutionize human psychology, cure mental illness, and transform society with next-generation technologies. The US, Europe, and other countries have committed major support for large-scale brain research programs.
Japan’s effort, called Brain Mapping by Innovative Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain/MINDS), is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEXT). The RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, will serve as the project’s core administrative and research facility.
Scientifically, the Brain/MINDS project will address a fundamental question in neuroscience: how does the human mind work? The project’s goal is to accelerate the development of technologies for mapping the brain’s circuitry in animal models and connecting the results to the diagnosis and treatment of human mental illness.
Japan Brain/MINDS Project Launches at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute
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Embarking on an ambitious 10-year effort to understand the biological origin of humanity and society – the brain – the Japan Brain/MINDS Project launched at several institutes and universities across Japan with aims of global collaboration
Brain science has attracted global attention in recent years as an area of science with the unique potential to revolutionize human psychology, cure mental illness, and transform society with next-generation technologies. The US, Europe, and other countries have committed major support for large-scale brain research programs.
Japan’s effort, called Brain Mapping by Innovative Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain/MINDS), is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEXT). The RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, will serve as the project’s core administrative and research facility.
Scientifically, the Brain/MINDS project will address a fundamental question in neuroscience: how does the human mind work? The project’s goal is to accelerate the development of technologies for mapping the brain’s circuitry in animal models and connecting the results to the diagnosis and treatment of human mental illness.
The project is being guided by the Brain Science Committee of MEXT. Efforts will be coordinated with large-scale projects outside of Japan, and support will be provided to the individual researchers inside and outside Japan involved in the project.
The Brain/MINDS project description and future developments and discoveries will be announced on their global website in due course, http://brainminds.jp/en/ .
Brain/Minds
革新的技術による脳機能ネットワークの全容解明プロジェクト
http://brainminds.jp/en/
Studying the neural networks controlling higher brain functions in the marmoset, to gain new insights into information processing and diseases of the human brain
本プロジェクトは、神経細胞がどのように神経回路を形成し、どのように情報処理を行うことによって、全体性の高い脳の機能を実現しているかについて、革新的技術を生かし、その全容を明らかにし、精神・神経疾患の克服につながるヒトの高次脳機能の解明のための基盤を構築することを目的として実施します。