#neural simulation

[doctipster-blog]

Neural Stimulation Helps Patients with Stroke and MS Walk Better While making use of technology designed by Case Western Reserve University and the Advanced Platform Technology and Functional Electrical Stimulation centers at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, patients with stroke and multiple sclerosis are able to walk.

[wildcat2030]

Reductionist biology—examining individual brain parts, neural circuits and molecules—has brought us a long way, but it alone cannot explain the workings of the human brain, an information processor within our skull that is perhaps unparalleled anywhere in the universe. We must construct as well as reduce and build as well as dissect. To do that, we need a new paradigm that combines both analysis and synthesis. The father of reductionism, French philosopher René Descartes, wrote about the need to investigate the parts and then reassemble them to re-create the whole. (via A Countdown to a Digital Simulation of Every Last Neuron in the Human Brain: Scientific American)