46 EduCases for The Virtual Brain.
Learning by doing.
Simulating the human brain is the holy grail of neuroscience – offering a pioneering tool for understanding how our brain works and how to deal with its disorders like stroke, epilepsy or neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
While large-scale research initiatives simulate neurons and small brain regions at the cellular level on massively parallel hardware, they are still years away from clinical applications.
The Virtual Brain (TVB) takes a different approach and reduces complexity on the micro level to attain the macro organization: a TVB model of a patient's brain generates sufficiently accurate EEG, MEG, BOLD and SEEG signals by reducing the complexity millionfold through methods from statistical physics. The key is TVB’s hybrid approach of merging individual anatomy from brain imaging data with state-of-the-art mathematical modeling.
In a nutshell:
you can simulate a human brain with TVB right now, for free and with access to the source code – on average MacBooks, faculty Linux servers or supercomputers like Piz Daint in CSCS Lugano.
Since its early beginnings as network equations scribbled on a bar coaster in 2008, TVB has gained wide recognition – demonstrated by regular invitations to participate at neuroinformatics events such as INCF conferences, and workshops dedicated to High Performance Computing (HPC) (such as organized by NSG).
Today, TVB is a reference tool for full-brain simulation. TVB serves as the simulation engine in the world’s first clinical trial on predictive brain modeling in epilepsy surgery (EPINOV). TVB is also the choice of full-brain simulator in Europe’s digital research infrastructure EBRAINS and directly links to other large-scale neuroinformatics efforts such as the Allen Institute’s Mouse atlas or the Human Brain Project (HBP).
A large, growing user base of clinicians and scientists are working every day with TVB, citing its scientific groundwork in well over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dedicated research facilities at Charité in Berlin, AMU in Marseille and Baycrest in Toronto have constructed and simulated almost 1000 individual, Connectome-based brain network models and published their findings, clocking in upwards of 10 million CPU core hours.
Highlights of the HBP summit
Marseille, France
Society for Neuroscience 2022
November 12–16
San Diego, USA
World Health Summit 2022
October 16–18
Berlin, Germany
9th TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows Workshop
Digital Event
Visit us at FENS
July 9–13
Paris, France
28th Organization of Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting
June 19–23
Glasgow, Scotland (Hybrid event)
Michael Betancourt: Bayesian Data Analysis
May 17–19
Marseille, France
Young Researchers Event 2022
Copenhagen, Denmark and online
Learning how network structure shapes decision-making for bio-inspired computing
Nature Communications
Personalised virtual brain models in epilepsy
The Lancet Neurology
Delineating epileptogenic networks using brain imaging data and personalized modeling in drug-resistant epilepsy
Science Translational Medicine
May 3
We would like to announce and congratulate the launch of Testing and Experimentation Facility Health AI and Robotics TEF-Health, a project funded by the European Union and member states with 60 million Euros. Our own co-founder of The Virtual Brain, Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter, leads this new project, as well as the Brain Simulation Section at Charité in Berlin.
TEF-Health has over 51 participants
November 11
Just in time for SfN 2022 in San Diego, we're releasing TVB 2.7.1 with over 40 improvements including bug fixes and dependencies upgrades.
Head over to our download page and get your update for Windows, macOS and Linux now!
If you have questions or would like to see a demo, visit our *[booth 3116](https://twitter.com/CourtiolJulie
June 14
The Brain Simulation Section is proud to announce that the eBRAIN-Health project: Actionable Multilevel Health Data, coordinated by Prof. Petra Ritter, has been funded with € 13Mill by Horizon Europe.
This comprehensive European infrastructure project is done in collaboration with EBRAINS AISBL and 18 additional European partners.
The project aims to develop a new federated
June 13
CORDIS recently featured EBRAINS Virtual Brain Cloud Facility Hub Services in its online article: "Making brain research easier with open-source software".
TVB on EBRAINS services were developed under the lead of the Brain Simulation Section at the Charité, and can be accessed here.
May 5
The Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes in Marseille is happy to announce a workshop collaboration with Michael Betancourt, a core developer of the popular platform Stan and expert on Hamilton Monte Carlo!
Bayesian Data Analysis is a key methodology for advanced brain simulation with The Virtual Brain, as can be seen in the [Bayesian Virtual Epileptic Patient](https://www.sciencedirec
January 21
The Virtual Brain: Facility Hub went online under hub.thevirtualbrain.org and serves as the first official EBRAINS contact point for any TVB related questions.
This complements the EBRAINS hub network, providing access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources of HBP partners, fostering collaboration to carry out cutting-e
January 19
Dr. Randy McIntosh appointed Leadership Chair in Neuroscience and Technology Translation Across the Lifespan at the new SFU institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology!
Read the article here.
Congratulations!
December 11
Get access to the state-of-the-art facilities and resources of HBP partner institutions, to foster collaboration and carry out cutting-edge scientific research.
HBP and HBP partners provide access to three types of Facility Hubs:
- Physical facilities (e.g. microscopes)
- Competence centres providing specialized software support going beyond the EBRAINS High Level Support Team*
