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Mapping the Brain and Its Functions: Integrating Enabling Technologies into Neuroscience Research
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The human brain is a fascinating, complex system whose mysteries are becoming increasingly accessible to the tools of modern science. Neuroscientists have amassed a sizable body of knowledge about the structure of the brain and its specific functions, which has improved our ability to treat a variety of mental and neurological diseases. Many other diseases are less tractable, however, and effective treatments will require major advances in both basic and clinical neuroscience. Underlying these advances will be an explosion of experimental data, whose magnitude poses serious problems for information management and communication. Effective access to existing neuroscience information is critical to the enterprise of discovery: such information forms the basis of new hypotheses, drives the search for improved methodologies, and, ultimately, leads to insights applicable to human disease. New strategies must be developed to enhance integration of this information and to facilitate new discoveries about the brain. Within the range of potentially beneficial strategies, the greater use of computer and information technology in neuroscience research holds particular promise.
NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS - Organizational Body
0-309-59766-8
NONE
Computer Science
English
1991
1-180
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