BRAIN Blog

Videocasts will be available for the open sessions of three upcoming BRAIN Initiative events on August 13, August 14, and August 24, 2018.

New administrative supplements integrate neuroethics perspectives and approaches into existing BRAIN Initiative awards.

Intracranial electrical recordings and neuro-stimulation of neurosurgical patients have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of vision, speech, decision making, memory, and sensorimotor processing.

Recent meetings of the Multi-Council Working Group (MCWG) for the NIH BRAIN Initiative and the MCWG Neuroethics Division provided updates on BRAIN’s scientific progress, considerations of the neuroethical issues surrounding the science, and discussions on how to continue working toward the…

In December, the NIH BRAIN Initiative held its third annual BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting, gathering experts from around the…

Videocasts will be available for the NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group and Neuroethics Division meetings on February 14^th and February 15^th…

Advances in neurotechnology are aimed at helping us better understand normal brain function and how to treat dysfunction associated with brain disorders. These technological advances carry potentially profound ethical implications.

Novel technologies for understanding the brain and treating brain disorders are expected to give rise to new and complex social and ethical questions that warrant focused attention and investigation.

Videocasts will be available for the NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group and Neuroethics Workgroup meetings on August 2^nd and August 3^rd…

A Neuroethics Workgroup will assist the NIH BRAIN Initiative in handling issues and problems involving ethics…