Main research areas of current national brain projects
| Research areas | European Union | USA | Japan | Korea | Australia | Canada | China | |
| Brain discovery | Brain mapping, understanding and accessing (mesoscopic) | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ (cognition) | ||
| Development of brain functions | √ | √ | √ (cognition) | |||||
| Non-human primate brain research | √ | √ | ||||||
| Brain simulation | Brain-machine interface | √ | √ | |||||
| Artificial intelligence | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||||
| Brain-inspired computer | √ | |||||||
| Brain protection | Neurological disorders | √ | √ (Parkinson’s disease) | √ | √ | √ | √ (intelligence disability, dementia, Parkinson’s disease) | |
| Psychiatric disorders | √ | √ | √ (autism, addiction, depression) | |||||
| Early diagnosis and intervention | √ | √ | √ | |||||
| Complementary medicine | √ (Chinese medicine) | |||||||