Encouraging innovative approaches to measure brain changes across lifespan for improved understanding of neurodevelopment and aging.
Supporting innovative and novel research to measure brain changes over longer periods, impacting neurodevelopment, aging, and disease risk in both humans and animals across all ages.
Develop and validate novel tools to probe brain cell-specific and circuit-specific processes for detailed analysis and understanding of brain function.
NIH supports mechanistic research using invasive recording or stimulation in the human brain to explain how neural activity produces experiences and behaviors; clinical trials are not allowed.
Funding for developing biomarkers to aid in clinical development of neurotherapeutics for neurological and neuromuscular disorders.
NIH supports specialized projects developing scalable technologies to map brain connectivity, emphasizing humans, non-human primates, and mice; clinical trials are not allowed.