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.
See TVB live at SfN 2018!
San Diego, USA
Workshop: TVB:Node#7
Montréal, QC, Canada
Workshop: TVB:Node#6
Berlin, Germany
TVB Poster Series @ SfN 2017
Washington DC, USA
See TVB live at SfN 2017!
Washington DC, USA
Workshop: TVB:Node#5
Marseille, France
On generalized notions of the Epileptogenic Zone
Neurophysiologie Clinique
Neurological Biomarkers and Neuroinformatics: The Role of The Virtual Brain
Molecular-Genetic and Statistical Techniques for Behavioral and Neural Research; Elsevier
Predicting the spatiotemporal diversity of seizure propagation and termination in human focal epilepsy
Nature Communications
June 29
TVB will be taking part in this year's FENS Forum in Berlin! There will be several opportunities to hear and see about us - be sure not to miss out. Dr. Petra Ritter will be making two presentations on July 6th as part of the extended program. The first is part of the Introductory Course, titled [Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Computational Neuroscience]
June 6
Experience The Virtual Brain this Saturday, June 9th from 5pm to midnight at Long Night of Sciences at the Charité in Berlin:
This event, which spans Charité's three clinical campuses, involves research scientists showcasing their work through presentations and workshops. Guided tours of the research labor
April 20
Joelle Zimmermann presents her work on Alzheimer's disease using TVB at the International Conference on Learning & Memory, in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at UC Irvine.
Abstract:
Alzheime
January 10
On the quiet Saturday morning of January 6th, 2018, an eager scientist tapped the trackpad – unknowingly making history and quite a few people dance on tables, toasting with leftover champagne from New Year's eve: Because the 10,000th copy of The Virtual Brain was downloaded!
The story of this impressive achievement in modern neuroscience started 10 years ago, in a pub in Chicago where [Vi
