# BRAIN Initiative Alliance **Domain:** Neuroscience / Institutional Coordination / Research Infrastructure **Doc Type:** Research Network Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[BRAIN Initiative]], [[Distributed Intelligence]], [[Research Infrastructure]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition The **BRAIN Initiative Alliance** is a coordinating network of organizations participating in or supporting the larger BRAIN Initiative ecosystem. ## Corpus Context The alliance makes the institutional substrate visible. Brain science advances through distributed funding, standards, instruments, data and laboratories rather than through an isolated discovery pipeline. ## Directory Context This network is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. ## Relationships - **Edge Annual Question source relationship:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] preserves the annual-question source corpus from which a proposition-specific quotation is connected to this entry. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "The impact of the BRAIN Initiative will be the creation of neurotechnologies that match the complexity of the brain. Genetic studies have uncovered hundreds of genes that contribute to brain disorders. Drugs have not been as effective in treating brain disorders as they have for heart diseases because of the diversity of cell types in the brain and complexity of the signaling pathways. The development of new neurotechnologies will create tools that are more precisely targeted at the sources of brain disorders. Tools from molecular genetics and optogenetics are already giving us an unprecedented ability to manipulate neurons and more powerful tools are on the way from the BRAIN Initiative." > **— Terrence J. Sejnowski**, *2016, Edge Annual Question, “What Do You Consider the Most Interesting Recent Scientific News? What Makes It Important?”* [[reminders/Neural Interfaces/Neurotechnologies Will Match the Complexity of the Brain by Terrence J. Sejnowski|Neurotechnologies Will Match the Complexity of the Brain by Terrence J. Sejnowski]] ## Sources / Provenance - [BRAIN Initiative Alliance](https://www.braininitiative.org/alliance/)