# BRAIN Initiative **Full Name:** Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative **Domain:** Neuroscience / Neurotechnology / Brain Mapping **Doc Type:** Research Program Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[BRAIN Initiative Alliance]], [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[Neural Mapping]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition The **BRAIN Initiative** is a U.S. research program supporting tools for measuring, mapping and understanding brain activity. ## Corpus Context It is a major infrastructure layer beneath future models of cognition. Better measurement may support therapy and scientific understanding, but a neural map is not by itself a person, a mind or proof of [[Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|consciousness continuity]]. ## Directory Context This program is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [BRAIN Initiative](https://www.braininitiative.org/)