Decade of the Brain

The Decade of the Brain was proclaimed by the U.S. government initiative to intensify the Neuroscience Research. The initiative was proclaimed by President George HW Bush on July 17, 1990 in Presidential Proclamation 6158 and lasted until 1999. The through it initiated and financially supported under this research effort gave brain research a new profile and provided new insights.

In Germany, a similar initiative was launched in April 2000 for the period from 2000 to 2010. She was under the direction of renowned scientists with Christian E. Elger, director of the University Clinic of Epileptology Bonn, as a speaker and the former Federal Minister of Economics and Labour, Wolfgang Clement as patron of the initiative.