Researchers of the Human Brain Project have created the first multiscale model of how a Parkinson’s brain responds to deep brain stimulation. Deep brain stimulation is a common method to treat Parkinson's symptoms, but currently outcomes of the invasive treatment are hard to predict. Modeling and simulating electric stimulation across multiple levels of brain networks can help clinicians “preview” their effects and plan therapies accordingly.
Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest challenges of neuroscience. Is it possible to develop brain-based measures of consciousness? Why does it fade and recover during transitions across brain states? Researchers at the Human Brain Project (HBP) are addressing this challenge by merging new clinical methods and advanced brain modelling on the EBRAINS research infrastructure. Over the past years, they used a novel approach to investigate brain activity in conscious and unconscious states from the micro-level to the whole brain.
Scientists of the Human Brain Project (HBP) have a strong presence at the 2022 Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting, the largest global meeting of scientists mapping the human brain.
From 16 May until 27 June 2022, a targeted consultation has been launched to seek opinion of stakeholders about current and future EU health priorities and strategic orientations, and on key health needs to be addressed through EU4Health annual Work Programmes.
From 13 to 15 June 2022, the EBRAINS Workshop: Brain Activity across Scales and Species: Analysis of Experiments and Simulations (BASSES) took place in Rome, Italy and online.
Researchers across Europe are invited to comment on a recently published position paper on the vision for the coming decade of digital brain research.
Brain simulation methods can be used to improve the classification of dementia and could in the future constitute a new diagnostic tool to help direct patients towards the right treatment. These are the conclusions suggested by a new paper by HBP researchers, published in the Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions (TRCI) journal. The findings provide a proof of concept for the use of the Virtual Brain simulation platform as a personalisation tool not only for treatment, but also for early stages of diagnosis.
Right at the beginning of summer, CNR and the HBP welcomed students from all over Europe and the world to join them in-person for the second edition of the EBRAINS Brain Simulation School in Palermo, Italy.
New brain maps show that cells, receptors and gene activity change along the same boundaries. The study, which was conducted by researchers of the Human Brain Project, elucidates principles of human brain organisation for areas of the visual, auditory, somatosensory and motor systems.
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