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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

i-fMRI: My initial thoughts on the BRAIN Initiative proposals


So we finally have some grant awards on which to judge the BRAIN Initiative. What was previously a rather vague outline of some distant, utopian future can now be scrutinized for novelty, practicality, capability, etc. Let's begin!

The compete list of awards across six different sections is here. The Next Generation Human Imaging section has selected nine diverse projects to lead us into the future. Here are my thoughts (see Note 1) based mostly on the abstracts of these successful proposals.