The Brainstorm Project’s ultimate goal is to develop greater awareness and understanding between scientists and ethicists and—beyond the duration of the project—to provide guidance for future ...

The Human Brain Project was one of two projects to get a billion in backing after a two year decision period. Henry Markram, the project’s founder and co-director, hopes to use the funds to build a ...

The project developed a computational model of a part of the brain responsible for motor decision-making. This was guided by brain experiments during animal behaviour.

Swiss Academy of Sciences members are uneasy about a project to simulate the entire brain and explore how neural circuits give rise to behavior and cognition ...

The Human Brain Project has just won a €1 billion research prize. Its director Henry Markram says the initiative will unify our understanding of the brain We want to reach a unified ...

The Human Brain Project, which just kicked off with an initial round of meetings in Lausanne, Switzerland, has promised to build a functional computer model of the brain to expand scientific ...

A new high resolution model of the CA1 region of the human hippocampus has been developed by the Institute of Biophysics of the Italian National Research Council and University of Modena e Reggio ...

'Blue Brain' project accurately predicts connections between neurons Date: September 17, 2012 Source: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Summary: Scientists have identified key principles ...

The most ambitious project to study one of nature’s most complex pieces of the machinery—the human brain—is now in danger of dissolution. Last year, the European Commission (EC) launched the ...

And the Human Brain Project was born. The EU’s project inspired a similar effort in the United States, called the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

The first complete activity map of the brain has been unveiled by a large international collaboration of neuroscientists. The ...