PROFILE
FROM Jonathan Webb
Mapping the Brain Europe and the U.S. are locked in a battle of the brains. A year and a half ago, the EU announced the Human Brain Project, a billion-dollar initiative to map the mysteries of the human mind. A few months later, President Obama proposed an American version: the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative. We look at the snags complicating these efforts on both sides of the pond.
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