Neuroscience Blueprint Promotes Efficiency, Synergy
In 2004, NIDA and 15 other NIH Institutes convened to address a challenge posed, in a sense, by an embarrassment of riches. In recent decades, neuroscientists had developed powerful new tools and techniques that yielded extraordinary insights into the working of the brain. The potential for future discoveries appeared limitless. However, without an overarching plan to assimilate, coordinate, and disseminate this burgeoning wealth of knowledge in an organized, coherent way, there was a risk that the resources could be wasted and progress slowed by inefficient or duplicative efforts. The NIH