January 27
At the Human Brain Project Summit & Open Days in Athens, the TVB team is proudly presenting the results of the last two years of active research.
All services and resources will be made available on the new EBRAINS platform!
For over 20 years, bright minds and ambitious projects have attempted to emulate the human brain across various scales of organization. Despite impressive efforts to bring in the latest and greatest computing power of massively parallel hardware, success hasn’t yielded practical applications yet.
To get practicality sooner, The Virtual Brain takes a network approach on the largest scale: By manipulating network parameters, in particular the brain’s connectivity, The Virtual Brain simulates its behavior as it is commonly observed in clinical scanners (e.g. EEG, MEG, fMRI).
Though The Virtual Brain incorporates the complex world of neuro-chemistry only to a small degree, it gains a lot by not becoming as complex as the brain itself.
Instead, The Virtual Brain embraces and extends novel concepts from computational, cognitive and clinical neuroscience in order to drastically reduce the model's complexity while still keeping it sufficiently realistic – and delivering the same output as clinical brain-scanners.
Upcoming events
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Brain Connectivity Workshop 2020
Toronto, Canada
The aim of Brain Connectivity Workshop is to establish a dialogue between researchers in computational neuroscience, neuroscience methodology and experimental neuroscience about the emerging field of brain connectivity. This year the workshop will revisit the first ever Brain Connectivity workshop theme from a different perspective: "What does the mind think of the brain?" - focusing the discussi -
TVB at the Mobile World Congress 2020
Barcelona, Spain
We are excited to announce that the The Virtual Brain and Virtual Brain Cloud will have a booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2020. We will be showing our work alongside the Human Brain Project and industry partners Eodyne and Indoc. Further details will be announced here, so watch this space!
Past events
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TVB at Human Brain Project Summit 2020
Athens, Greece
Meet the TVB team at the Human Brain Project Summit & Open Day in Athens from February 3 to 6! We will present at the "Explore the Brain" EBRAINS booth on Open day, February 3rd and have a dedicated TVB session on February 5th. Find out about all the TVB tools and services that we made available via EBRAINS! We've compiled an overview of all the new virtual brain tools for EBRAINS if you're curio -
TVB presentation at Berlin Brains 2020
Berlin, Germany
Urania Berlin is one of the leading centers of dialog between science, the humanities and the public. We are excited to join the many leading scientists who deliver lectures and talks in their areas of research at Urania. Petra Ritter and Paul Triebkorn will present The Virtual Brain at Urania Berlin on January 21st, 2020. The talk will be a part of a series called Berlin Brains 2020, during whic -
TVB lecture at Bernstein Center Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Dr. Petra Ritter will be holding a lecture on The Virtual Brain at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin on January 20th, 2019. The lecture will begin at 4pm in the BCCN lecture hall. Guests are welcome! -
TVB lecture at HEIBRIDS Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Dr. Petra Ritter will be holding a lecture about The Virtual Brain at the Helmholtz Einstein International Berlin Research School in Data Science (HEIBRIDS). The lecture is part of a weekly series on the applications of data science. Lectures in the series are open to the public, start at 4:00 PM and take place in the Lecture Hall of the Einstein Center Digital Future. The full program for the wi -
TVB training course at Bernstein Center
Berlin, Germany
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a training course for The Virtual Brain at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin on December 3rd, 2019. During the course, we will introduce the The Virtual Brain (TVB) - a large-scale simulation platform, from both a theoretical and practical application perspective. This simulation environment allows biologically realistic -
See TVB live at SfN 2019!
Chicago, USA
We will be exhibiting TVB at SfN this year, along side our collaborators The Human Brain Project (HBP) and International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF), who will be in booths not too far away - so come and say hello! Along with showcasing TVB at the booth, we will also be featuring a dedicated Virtual Brain Poster session (#705). The poster session includes 11 presentations from 8A
Latest publications
New developments
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Virtual brain tools on EBRAINS
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TVB Dataset published on Zenodo
October 6
Zenodo has gained credibility in the science world, by providing reliability, a good indexing and flexibility for the published content. Thus, we decided to use it for our tvb-data.
This is now the recommended place, from where you can download TVB compatible datasets.
Our [Github Repo for tvb-data] (https://github.com/t
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New Release: TVB version 1.5.8
May 16
This release brings over 50 improvements including bug fixes and dependencies upgrades. It's available for download for all supported platforms!
Head over to our download page and get your update now!
Note: This release will be relevant during our workshop [TVB Node#8] (https://www.thevirtualbrain.org/tvb/zwei/newswire-event-si
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Join the TVB team for the Google Summer of Code 2019
March 26
The Virtual Brain offers 3 exciting student projects for the Google Summer of Code 2019!
Participants get a chance to work on a well-kept codebase with our mentors and contribute to better the
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The Virtual Brain joins the EU Flagship the Human Brain Project
February 15
The Virtual Brain joins the EU Flagship the Human Brain Project
The Virtual Brain was successful in two recent ‘digital infrastructure’ and ‘medical informatics platform’ calls of the EU Flagship The Human Brain Project (HBP) and officially joined
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Horizon 2020 supports VirtualBrainCloud project
February 14
The Virtual Brain was successful in a recent Research and Innovation Call of the European Commission Horizon2020 program with the topic “Exploiting the full potential of in-silico medicine research for personalized diagnostics and therapies in cloud-based environments”.The newly formed VirtualBrainCloud consortium led by Prof. Ritter a
