Psychostimulants are commonly used as treatments of psychiatric disorders or to improve cognition, but the benefits of these drugs are not the same for everyone, as their effects vary greatly both across individuals and within the same patient. This large variability poses a major problem for treatment strategies in psychiatry, and the reasons behind it are still not clear. Now, scientists of the Human Brain Project (HBP) moved closer to understanding them.
As factory floors become increasingly automated, the interaction between robots and humans in the same working environment is projected to be a common occurrence. It must be safe for the humans involved to avoid injuries and life-threatening situations. The Human Brain Project now unveils a new Showcase project about Cobotics – exploring the safe collaboration between humans and robots in a shared space. Using the digital EBRAINS research infrastructure, the scientists have employed models and insights that draw inspiration from neuroscience.
The Innovation team has recently organized the third online Solution Workshop, focused on Neuropharma, with the participation of HBP researchers and European startups that are showing outstanding approaches in the drug discovery and development area.
The HBP Innovation and Technology Transfer Node is glad to announce the release of the EBRAINS Multilevel Human Brain Atlas market analysis.
Does shrinking of the angular gyrus in the brain lead to cognitive decline as we get older? A new study by Human Brain Project scientists in Germany has revealed a clearer picture.
Every brain is different, and the same structural change may cause loss of function in one brain, but have no consequences in another. In order to better understand why individual brains vary so much, scientists at the Human Brain Project (HBP) are using brain models and simulations.
In ancient times, epilepsy was called “the sacred disease”, and its origin was attributed to divine intervention. A 400 B.C. text attributed to Hippocrates was the first to strip epilepsy of this divine aura and instead hypothesize that it was caused by “the flux of humors in the brain”, turning epilepsy from a theological into a clinical matter. Since then, research has continued exploring this extremely complex neurological condition, which affects over 50 million people worldwide. A third of epilepsy patients are resistant to drugs, and surgical removal of the area of the brain where seizures emerge is often the …
The Human Brain Project (HBP) and EBRAINS are present at the Bernstein Conference 2022, which takes place in Berlin from 13 to 17 September. EBRAINS is one of the sponsors of the conference, held annually by the Bernstein Network to bring together the international computational neuroscience community for scientific exchange.
Researchers who work with neuronal network models – simplified representations of brains – need to "speak the same language" so that their results can be understood and reproduced. Scientists at the Human Brain Project now propose guidelines for the unambiguous description of network connectivity by formalizing concepts already in use in the computational neuroscience community. To provide an intuitive understanding of network properties, they also propose a graphical notation for network diagrams unifying existing diagram styles.
From September 5th to 7th2022, the EBRAINS Workshop HBP Partnering Projects: status quo & outlook that was hosted by the annual Donders Cognitive, Brain & Technology Summer school (DCBT 2022) took place in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
