There should be federal money to study how the brain of Representative Robyn Gabel works. « Fred Klonsky

There should be federal money to study how the brain of Representative Robyn Gabel works. « Fred Klonsky:

There should be federal money to study how the brain of Representative Robyn Gabel works.

by Fred Klonsky

A story in the NY Times this morning reports that the Obama administration is proposing a decade-long study of the human brain costing $3 billion dollars.

Composed of roughly 100 billion neurons that each electrically “spike” in response to outside stimuli, as well as in vast ensembles based on conscious and unconscious activity, the human brain is so complex that scientists have not yet found a way to record the activity of more than a small number of neurons at once, and in most cases that is done invasively with physical probes.

I am glad to hear about this.
I have tons of questions about the human brain and how it works.
As an example, when I attended the town hall meeting in Wilmette a few weeks ago, I directly asked State