Tag: Computational Neuroscience

Research Describes How the Brain Recognizes What the Eye Sees

June 12, 2017
Mindzilla

La Jolla, CA — If you think self-driving cars can’t get here soon enough, you’re not alone. But programming computers to recognize objects is very technically challenging, especially...

New Scientific Discovery Game Significantly Speeds Up Neuroscience Research Process, Say Researchers

April 25, 2017
Mindzilla

Seattle, WA — A new scientific discovery game is allowing video gamers to significantly speed up reconstructing the intricate architecture of brain cells, a fundamental task in 21st century brain...

Scientists Adapt Computer Program to Gauge Eye Spasm Severity

October 25, 2016
Mindzilla

La Jolla, CA — If two clinicians observe the same patient with blepharospasm — uncontrollable muscle contractions around the eye — they’ll often come away with two different...

New Brain-Sensing Technology Allows Typing 12 Words per Minute

October 3, 2016
Mindzilla

Stanford, CA – Technology for reading signals directly from the brain developed by Stanford Bio-X scientists could provide a way for people with movement disabilities to communicate.

Changes in Heart Activity May Signal Epilepsy, Says Study

March 11, 2016
Mindzilla

Cleveland, OH — Doctors have long characterized epilepsy as a brain disorder, but researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found that part of the autonomic nervous system functions differently...

Biologically Realistic Mathematical Model of How the Brain Makes Complex Decisions Created

February 4, 2016
Mindzilla

Cambridge, UK — Researchers have built the first biologically realistic mathematical model of how the brain plans and learns when faced with a complex decision-making process.

Researchers Use Network Science to Help Pinpoint Source of Seizures

January 28, 2016
Mindzilla

Philadelphia, PA — For the third of all epilepsy patients who don’t respond to medication, an alternative is to locate the small cluster of neurons that act as the seed of a seizure’s aberrant...

Research Reveals Memory Capacity of Brain is Ten Times More Than Previously Thought

January 20, 2016
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La Jolla, CA — Salk researchers and collaborators have achieved critical insight into the size of neural connections, putting the memory capacity of the brain far higher than common estimates. The new...

Scientists Create Better 3D Map of Monkey Brain

October 22, 2015
Kristina Popova

Salt Lake City, UT — Computer scientists and a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Utah have developed software that maps out a monkey’s brain and more easily creates a 3-D model,...

Automated Speech Analysis Helps Identify Patients at Risk of Developing Psychosis

August 26, 2015
Kristina Popova

New York, NY — An automated speech analysis program correctly differentiated between at-risk young people who developed psychosis over a two-and-a-half year period and those who did not. In a proof-of-principle...

Potential Sleep-Related Treatment Targets for Fibromyalgia Identified

August 20, 2015
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Bethesda, MD — Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic pain from no clear source. Patients with fibromyalgia frequently have sleep problems: Their deep sleep brain wave patterns are often disrupted...

Scientists Identified Brain Activity that Predicts Promiscuity and Problem Drinking

July 2, 2015
Kristina Popova

Durham, NC — A pair of brain-imaging studies suggest researchers may be able to predict how likely young adults are to develop problem drinking or engage in risky sexual behaviour in response to st...

Engineers Seek to Make Computer Brains Smarter By Making Them More Like Our Own

May 12, 2015
Mindzilla

Santa Barbara, CA — In what marks a significant step forward for artificial intelligence, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated the functionality of a simple artificial neural circuit....

Novel System Reveals How Our Brains and Bodies Change As We Fall Asleep

November 20, 2014
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Boston, MA — Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have developed a system to accurately track the dynamic process of falling asleep, something has not been possible with existing tech...

Unprecedented 3-D View of Important Brain Receptor

June 27, 2014
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Portland, OR — Researchers with Oregon Health & Science University’s Vollum Institute have given science a new and unprecedented 3-D view of one of the most important receptors in the brain...

New Technology Endows Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton With Sense of Touch

June 10, 2014
Mindzilla

Munich, Germany — According to researchers in the Walk Again Project, all systems are go for a bold demonstration of neuroscience and cognitive technology in action: On June 12, during the opening of...

Stanford Bioengineers Create Circuit Board Modelled on the Human Brain

April 29, 2014
Mindzilla

Stanford, CA — Stanford bioengineers have developed a new circuit board modelled on the human brain, possibly opening up new frontiers in robotics and computing. [Video]

Researcher Controls Colleague’s Motions in First Human Brain-to-Brain Interface

August 27, 2013
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Seattle, WA – University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet...

Scientists Complete Reconstruction of a Piece of Retina

August 8, 2013
Mindzilla

Cambridge, MA – The human brain has 100 billion neurons, connected to each other in networks that allow us to interpret the world around us, plan for the future, and control our actions and movemen...

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