NIH invests over $220M in BRAIN initiative

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The National Institutes of Health announced today that it is funding more than 200 new awards, totaling over $220 million in investments, through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

Some of the new awards include the creation of a wireless optical tomography cap for scanning human brain activity; a noninvasive brain-computer interface system for improving the lives of paralysis patients; testing noninvasive brain stimulation devices to treat schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder and other brain diseases.

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