- Thomas R Insel: National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 insel@mail.nih.gov.
- Walter Koroshetz: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
The BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative is an ambitious project to develop innovative tools for a deeper understanding of how the brain functions in health and disease. Early programs in the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative focus on tools for next-generation imaging and recording, studies of cell diversity and cell census, and integrative approaches to circuit function. In all of these efforts, cell biologists can play a leading role.