White House launches the BRAIN Initiative with about $100M for its first year across NIH, DARPA and NSF

NIH/BRAIN Initiative

The US government announced the BRAIN Initiative to build technologies that show how individual brain cells and circuits work. The first-year plan, for fiscal 2014, was about $100M, split between NIH, DARPA and NSF. The stated aim was new ways to treat and prevent conditions such as Alzheimer's, epilepsy and brain injury.

• Announced 2 April 2013.
• FY2014 plan: NIH $40M, DARPA $50M, NSF $20M.
• Focus on tools to map cell and circuit activity, not one disease.