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The 7th International Conference on Extreme Learning Machines (ELM2016)
This year’s ELM conference will be held at the Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore from December 13-15, 2016. Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) aim to break the barriers between the conventional artificial learning techniques and biological learning mechanism. ELM represents a suite of (machine or possibly biological) learning techniques...
Constructing Brain Taxonomy One Cell at a Time
When looking at any problem, it’s important to understand its individual parts. When a problem is in brain function at a cellular level, “classifying cells is like sorting Skittles in the dark,” says Vilas Menon of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Now, a team led by Menon and...
New brain surgery treats seizures in children
After eight years of study, a Children’s Hospital of Michigan neurosurgeon and his colleagues are using an endoscope to perform surgical procedures to help control intractable epileptic seizures in pediatric patients – without subjecting them to the invasive skull surgery that has been previously required for treatment. The pioneering...
Growing Mini-Brains in Labs to Better Understand Neurological Disease
Scientists from Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) in Vienna are underpinning the secrets behind the most fascinating human’s organ, the brain. By essentially growing brains from scratch, the researchers are able to better understand anomalies in neurological disease, including the physiology behind neurological pathologies such as Schizophrenia and Autism....
Revolutionary Neuroscience Technique Slated for Human Clinical Trials
A technique called optogenetics has transformed neuroscience during the past 10 years by allowing researchers to turn specific neurons on and off in experimental animals. By flipping these neural switches, it has provided clues about which brain pathways are involved in diseases like depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. “Optogenetics is...
Precision Optogenetics –
The year 2015 marked the ten-year anniversary of the introduction of channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2) into neuroscience. ChR2 has proven to be a powerful tool not only for stimulating neurons, but also for inspiring the development of other optogenetic tools. Typically, these tools are excited with wide-field illumination, and specificity...
Launch of the Big Data Analytics Journal
After years of planning and months of hard work, our own Professor Amir Hussain is officially launching the Big Data Analytics Journal, an open access journal produced in partnership with BioMed Central (BMC/Springer Publishing). The journal can be found at .. http://www.bdataanalytics.com The inaugural issue of Big Data Analytics will be hitting...
Prof. Jehel interviewed by Le Monde
In the wake of the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris, our Professor Jehel was interviewed by Le Monde regarding the psychological impact that such a traumatic event has upon individuals and the community and how we can all begin healing. Click here to read the full article.
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