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Blue Brain Project | Mouse Neocortex Tractography

"View from below the neocortex rendered at 3% density. Showing long distance connections (white matter) between regions of the neocortex. Neurons are colored by morphological types and algorithmically synthesized." [EPFL | Switzerland | 2005—2020]

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From the Blue Brain Project website: a research initiative that aims at creating a digital reconstruction of the mouse brain. There are plenty more images on the website, but I love these. Description of each image is under the cut.

images and text ©BBP/EPFL.

synthesis of neocortical neurons: a forest of neurons grown artificially with various morphological types in the neocortex. pyramidal cells are shown in blue and interneurons in green.

neocortical column microcircuit from above. neurons are colored by morphological types.

connectivity in the neocortex: neurons are colored by morphological types.

a digitally reconstructed neocortical column from the mouse cortex. neurons are colored by morphological types.

connectivity among neurons: neurons have preferences in connecting to others. some patterns are visible here such as the rich club in the middle.

neural 'dripping': a close up view of a digital circuit of neurons inside the thalamus. this seemingly chaotic forest is actually a very organized set of interconnected cells.

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"Researchers Reveal The Multi-Dimensional Universe Of The Brain" image: "The bottom is part of the Neocortex, the top represents structures ranging from 1 dimension to 7 dimensions and beyond. The 'black-hole' in the middle is used to symbolize a complex of multi-dimensional spaces, or cavities." Blue Brain Project http://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-reveal-the-multidimensional-universe-of-the-brain/

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Amelia 2.0 Needed a 1.0 Readthrough

Amelia 2.0 Needed a 1.0 Readthrough

*Warning: Potential Spoilers* Taking a story from the stage to the screen can sometimes be a great improvement, especially in a science-fiction story, when so much of the tale relies on visuals that just can’t be presented the same way onstage as they can when CGI is available. The story of Amelia Summerland from the Cedar Rapids play, “The Summerland Project”, could have been exactly that when…

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What are Whole Brain Emulations?

What are Whole Brain Emulations?

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KEY TOPICS

Whole brain emulation implies the re-creation of all the brain‘s properties in an alternative substrate, namely a computer system, creating a 1-to-1 model where all relevant properties of the system exist.(More…)

A platform for developing emulations of the entire fruit fly brain, however, must provide programming services for expressing the functional architecture of…

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Blue Brain

The human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe. It has more neurons than there are humans on Earth and more connections between the neurons than there are stars in our galaxy. Building computational models of this network can help in elucidating how we feel and think, but the task is staggeringly complicated. As a first step, the Blue Brain Project has set out to model part of the rat brain. Their first simulation is based on published anatomy from a multitude of scientific papers, and includes tens of thousands of neurons and millions of connections. It reproduces many experimental findings, such as the spontaneous activity shown here. This is only the beginning. The team wants to expand the model by including more details about the rat nervous system and by gradually increasing the size of their simulations. Eventually they plan to model the human brain too.

Written by Bertie Gyenes

Video courtesy of the BBP/EPFL/Human Brain Project 2015

Blue Brain Project, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Biotech Campus, Geneva, Switzerland

Image/video copyright held by the original authors

Research published in Cell, October 2015

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Using Virtual Reality to Reverse Engineer the Brain

Using Virtual Reality to Reverse Engineer the Brain

C O N T E N T S: KEY TOPICS “We are effectively trying to reverse engineer the process by which gamblers have and keep their addiction by training their brains to override this process,” he said.(More…) This all brings us to the main point of the chapter: how we can and will reverse engineer the human brain.(More…) Some people are nauseated by virtual reality, disoriented by how it tricks your…

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