Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/president-obama-s-push-for-mapping-human-brain-activity Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a decade-long effort to map the activity of the brain. To understand the president’s plan and walk through the possible implications, Ray Suarez talks to Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, who would coordinate much of the project.