According to a new report, a 10-year billion pound neuroscience project has started, which aims to revolutionize the understanding of human brain.

Scientists from about 135 institutions are taking part in the Human Brain Project (HBP). Most of the scientists are from Europe.

This project is co-founded by the European Union (EU), which aims to develop the technology needed to create a computer simulation of the brain.

From the thousands of neuroscience papers published annually, this project also maintains a database of all the brain researchers, which took place till date.

Prof. Henry Markram, Director of the HBP at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), in Switzerland, said: "The Human Brain Project is an attempt to build completely new computer science technology that will enable us to collect all information we have built up about brain over years".

This project clearly explains about the features of brain. We must understand the proper functioning of human brain and the basic mechanism behind the cognition and behavior of the brain.

HBP is a project based on new technologies and is inspired by the ways that how the brain computes.

The scientists had used the current computer technologies to simulate complex brain functions. But, with the invention of supercomputers, it became easy to completely understand the stimulation of the human brain.