BRAINnet Foundation launched, Molecular Psychiatry

Personalized medicine for the brain:a call for action

SH Koslow, LM Williams and E Gordon

Molecular Psychiatry (2010) 15, 229–230; doi:10.1038/mp.2009.147; published online 12 January 2010

Disorders of the human brain, such as depression, schizophrenia and addiction, are the cause of immeasurable
human suffering. As they are largely chronic and strike in youth, brain disorders lead to greater disability and
loss of productivity than any other category of illness. On 24– 25 October 2009, leaders from the fields of
research, medicine, industry, government and philanthropy convened at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington
DC to launch an initiative fostering personalized medicine for the brain. The Mayflower Action Group Initiative
was instigated by BRAINnet, a new non-profit foundation that provides a database on the human brain using
standardized methods.

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