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October 10, 2013 7:00 AM UTC

The NIH's BRAIN initiative has developed a road map for its near-term research priorities, chief among which is conducting a census of brain cells. Whether the ambitious, decades-long project will be funded at anticipated levels will depend on the outcome of Washington's stalled budget talks.

When BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) was announced in April, President Barack Obama and NIH director Francis Collins claimed that the project would yield technologies to image and model living human brains and techniques for manipulating brain activity in patients with neurological diseases...