Anyone who honestly believes this regime will use that money to produce a brain map, needs one. Follow. The. Money.
They might do it if they could implant things in kids to stimulate or quiet down certain kinds of reactions. Maybe even surgery to keep the drones productive without having any urges to rebel.
I know for sure he isn't interested in protecting us from Alzheimer's unless he thinks he'll get it. He wants to just give us a pill.
If you’re going to develop an invention for mind control you’d have to map the brain. Obviously 0 doesn’t need to; he’s already figured that out.