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Troubled Human Brain Project changes course

Commission responds to critics with idea of permanent facility

The European Commission is considering changing the Human Brain Project into an infrastructure facility, following criticism from researchers that it is not working.

The project could morph from a 10-year scientific investigation into a permanent European facility for human brain research. This is likely to centre on an IT platform that would pool and analyse large volumes of data from both neural and cognitive studies.

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