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.
CNS*2019 Workshop in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Long Night of Sciences Berlin 2019
Berlin, Germany
Workshop: TVB:Node#8
Marseille, France
See TVB live at SfN 2018!
San Diego, USA
Workshop: TVB:Node#7
Montréal, QC, Canada
Workshop: TVB:Node#6
Berlin, Germany
A macaque connectome for large-scale network simulations in The Virtual Brain
Nature Scientific Data
Linking molecular pathways and large-scale computational modeling to assess candidate disease mechanisms and pharmacodynamics in Alzheimer's disease
Frontiers Computational Neuroscience
On generalized notions of the Epileptogenic Zone
Neurophysiologie Clinique
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
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
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
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
