The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

Part I: Mapping the brain
1. Building atlases of the brain / Mike Hawrylycz with Chinh Dang, Christof Koch, and Hongkui Zeng
2. Whole brain neuroimaging and virtual reality / Misha B. Ahrens
3. Project MindScope / Christof Koch with Clay Reid, Hongkui Zeng, Stefan Mihalas, Mike Hawrylycz, John Philips, Chinh Dang, and Allan Jones
4. The connectome as a DNA sequencing problem / Anthony Zador
5. Rosetta brain / George Church with Adam Marblestone and Reza Kalhor

Part II: Computation
6. Understanding the cortex through grid cells / May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser
7. Recording from many neurons simultaneously: from measurement to meaning / Krishna V. Shenoy
8. Network neuroscience / Olaf Sporns
9. Large-scale neuroscience: from analytics to insight / Jeremy Freeman

Part III: Simulating the brain
10. Whole brain simulation / Sean Hill
11. Building a behaving brain / Chris Eliasmith

Part IV: Language
12. The neurobiology of language / David Poeppel
13. Translating the genome in human neuroscience / Simon E. Fisher

Part V: Skeptics
14. Consciousness, big science, and conceptual clarity / Ned Block
15. From circuits to behavior: a bridge too far? / Matteo Carandini
16. Lessons from evolution / Leah Krubitzer
17. Lessons from the genome / Arthur Caplan with Nathan Kunzler
18. The computational brain / Gary Marcus

Part VI: Implications
19. Neurotechnology / John Donoghue
20. The miswired brain, genes, and mental illness / Kevin J. Mitchell
21. Neural dust: an untethered approach to chronic brain-machine interfaces / Michael M. Maharbiz with Dongjin Seo, Jose M. Carmena, Jan M. Rabaey, and Elad Alon

Part VII: Afterword
22. Neuroscience in 2064: a look at the last century / Christof Koch and Gary Marcus.