Researchers Still in Contention to Decide the Importance of Brain-Mapping Idea

The National Institutes of Health is planning to set out a project in which they will be mapping different brain networks to understand the behaviour of brain cells and the mental ailments involved.

However, there have been raised several ovation about the project's ambitious scope but then at the same time, some apprehensions have also been shown over its potential costs.

The project could be based on the scale of the war on cancer of the 1970s or the Human Genome Project of the '90s that recorded the human genetic blueprint. Advance tools would be used to map the brain networks.

As said by Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, "This is not a project yet. It is more like an idea".

Brain is known as the main frontier of a human body. Without the proper functioning of a brain, a living being is not able to think, see, write, eat or do any other basic activity of life.

And if any kind of disease affects the brain, it becomes difficult to be trapped and then treated further.

Keeping aside all these facts, neuroscientists are still confused to decide the benefits and requirement of this research. For some, it is reasonable to be carried out but then others are considering it to be an insufficient one.