European brain research

Consensus document on European brain research.

Psychiatric and neurological diseases combined represent a considerable social and economic burden in Europe. A recent study conducted by the European Brain Council (EBC) quantified the 'cost and burden' of major brain diseases in Europe, amounting to €386bn per year. Considering that these costs will increase exponentially in the years to come due to ageing of the European population, it is ne...

Consensus Statement on European Brain Research: the need to expand brain research in Europe - 2015.

R. G. M. Morris, W. Oertel, W. Gaebel, G. M. Goodwin, A. Little, P. Montellano, M. Westphal, D. J. Nutt and M. Di Luca Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), Bruxelles, Belgium European Academy of Neurology (EAN), Vienna, Austria European Psychiatric Association (EPA), Strasburg, France European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), Utrecht, The Netherlands European Federati...

The Human Brain Project: Creating a European Research Infrastructure to Decode the Human Brain

Decoding the human brain is perhaps the most fascinating scientific challenge in the 21st century. The Human Brain Project (HBP), a 10-year European Flagship, targets the reconstruction of the brain's multi-scale organization. It uses productive loops of experiments, medical, data, data analytics, and simulation on all levels that will eventually bridge the scales. The HBP IT architecture is un...

The European Research Council—A European Renaissance

S cience looks set for a fundamentalist revival within the European Union. Its leading proponents are taking advantage of unprecedented political upheaval—as ten new Member States accede to the Union—to press their case for funding of basic research that is driven solely and independently by investigators themselves in the pursuit of excellence. The broad thrust of their appeal calls for the se...

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