The Brain/MINDS (''Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies'') is a Japanese project sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (
MEXT
The , also known as MEXT or Monka-shō, is one of the eleven Ministries of Japan that composes part of the executive branch of the Government of Japan. Its goal is to improve the development of Japan in relation with the international community ...
) in 2014, then by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (
AMED) as of 2015. The project was launched in June 2014
[
][
] for a 10-year duration.
The Brain/MINDS Project studies focuses on three areas:
# The study of the brain of the
common marmoset
The common marmoset (''Callithrix jacchus'') also called white-tufted marmoset or white-tufted-ear marmoset is a New World monkey. It originally lived on the northeastern coast of Brazil, in the states of Piaui, Paraiba, Ceará, Rio Grande do ...
– a
non-human primate. This is led by
Hideyuki Okano of the
RIKEN Center for Brain Science (formerly "RIKEN Brain Science Institute") and the
Keio University School of Medicine.
# Developing technologies for
brain mapping
Brain mapping is a set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of (biological) quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the (human or non-human) brain resulting in maps.
According to the definition established in ...
; led by
Atsushi Miyawaki, also of the
RIKEN Center for Brain Science.
#
Human brain
The human brain is the central organ (anatomy), organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system. The brain consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. It controls most of the act ...
mapping. This is led by
Kiyoto Kasai of the
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project b ...
's Graduate School of Medicines.
References
External links
Official Website of Brain/MINDS project* Th
Brain/MINDS Dataportal dedicated for sharing the data and knowledge being produced in the Brain/MINDS project
Emerging technologies
Government research
Neuroinformatics
Research in Japan
Neuroscience projects
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