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  • Obama's BRAIN Initiative yields first study results

    07/01/2015 12:03:19 PM PDT · by Lazamataz · 43 replies
    Reuters ^ | Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:05pm EDT | BY SHARON BEGLEY
    The mouse walked, the mouse stopped; the mouse ignored a bowl of food, then scampered back and gobbled it up, and it was all controlled by neuroscientists, researchers reported on Thursday. The study, describing a way to manipulate a lab animal's brain circuitry accurately enough to turn behaviors both on and off, is the first to be published under President Barack Obama's 2013 BRAIN Initiative, which aims to advance neuroscience and develop therapies for brain disorders. The point of the remote-control mouse is not to create an army of robo-rodents. Instead, neuroscientists hope to perfect a technique for identifying brain...