摘要:The leader of the free world is not a neuroscientist. But he likes what they do.In 2013, President Obama called on Congress to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in new brain research.1 The President observed, “As humans, we can identify galaxies light years away, we can study particles smaller than an atom. But we still haven’t unlocked the mys-tery of the three pounds of matter that sits between our ears.”2 Obama went on to boldly proclaim that this brain “knowledge could be — will be — transformative.”3