Archive – 2023

  • Announcement

HBP Summit 2023: Register now for the satellite events!

24 February 2023

A full day of satellite events taking place on Monday, 27 March, will kick off the week of the Human Brain Project (HBP) Summit 2023 in Marseille, France. The satellite events include hands-on training sessions on HBP-developed tools and infrastructures as well as open forums for discussions.

  • News

Broadening the debate on neurorights

16 February 2023

Awareness of the need for neurotechnology governance has led to calls for a new set of ‘neurorights.’ The neurorights proposal, however, has sparked a lively debate. In a new book several experts reflect on the challenges and promises of neurotechnologies and on existing and proposed regulatory frameworks. One suggestion is that the neurorights proposal would benefit from further reflection on the framing of problems and solutions and more active public engagement.

  • Research News

Researchers simulate epileptic seizure propagation in healthy tissue

10 February 2023

Researchers of the Human Brain Project have simulated how an epilepsy seizure spreads through healthy tissue in the brain, potentially increasing the precision of virtual predictive tools available to clinicians. The study, carried out by Damien Depannemaecker at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience in France, has been published in the journal eNeuro.

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