Sentences with phrase «brain microcircuits»

Although non-invasive methods to explore brain function in humans such as functional imaging and EEG / MEG have been informative regarding the potential role of a given brain area in a particular cognitive function, they lack the necessary temporal and spatial resolution to study brain microcircuits.

«We have achieved the ability to build a brain microcircuit, an elementary unit, and now it's just a matter of scaling up,» he says.

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To precisely identify the neurobiological processes at work when speech is heard by a human brain, Anne - Lise Giraud's team and colleagues at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) built a computerized model of neuronal microcircuits which replicates cerebral waves.

Neurons are thus organized on many different scales, from small microcircuits and assemblies all the way to regional brain networks.

It has been a longstanding hypothesis that alterations in the microcircuit of the prefrontal cortex and / or in its connectivity with the rest of the brain may be at the core of many of these disorders.

The goal of this work is to characterize the role of dendrites in learning and memory processes so as to formulate a unifying theory regarding their contribution in memory formation across brain regions and abstraction levels.This will be achieved via the development of computational models that start at the single cell level and expand to the microcircuit and the network level, while varying in their degree of biophysical detail.

Towards this goal, we build abstract mathematical as well as detailed biophysical models of neural cells and circuits across multiple brain regions (hippocampus, amygdala, PFC) and abstraction levels (single neurons, microcircuits, neuronal networks).

Prof Dr Christian Doeller is Acting Director of the The Egil and Pauline Braathen and Fred Kavli Centre for Cortical Microcircuits and Professor of Medicine and Neuroscience at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU and St Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway and Principal Investigator at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience Centre for Neural Computation The Egil and Pauline Braathen and Fred Kavli Centre for Cortical Microcircuits St Olavs University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Norwegian University of Science and Technology Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging Centre for Neuroscience, Faculty of Science Radboud University