Brain Sciences Journal

The 7th International Conference on Extreme Learning Machines (ELM2016)

rrfhoward@gmail.com — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 06:52:45 +0000

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 …

Prof Howard appointed to ICCI*CC 2016 program committee

rrfhoward@gmail.com — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:42:21 +0000

Prof Howard has been appointed to the program committee for the 15th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC), to be held this year at Stanford University from Aug 22-23, 2016. A call for papers may be …

French American Innovation Day 2016 at MIT Media Lab

rrfhoward@gmail.com — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:33:53 +0000

FAID is an annual Franco-American event at the MIT Media Lab which brings together scientists, companies, entrepreneurs and investors. It is a high-level event in the Boston area where researchers and companies have the opportunity to exchange views on a …

French Congress of Psychiatry – Montpellier 2016

rrfhoward@gmail.com — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:35:32 +0000

The French Congress of Psychiatry – 8th edition
Montpellier – Le Corum

23 to 26 November 2016.

The 8 ^th Congress in Montpellier will reaffirm the importance of psychiatry as a discipline future assuming one hand the rate of 10% …

French American Innovation Day 2016

rrfhoward@gmail.com — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:25:20 +0000

FAID 2016 – PRECISION MEDICINE & NEW TECHNOLOGIES: TRANSFORMING CLINICAL RESEARCH
February 9-10, 2016

MIT Media Lab

This conference is organized by the Office for Science & Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States in collaboration with …

Constructing Brain Taxonomy One Cell at a Time

rrfhoward@gmail.com — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:17:26 +0000

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 …

New brain surgery treats seizures in children

rrfhoward@gmail.com — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 00:13:22 +0000

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 …

Growing Mini-Brains in Labs to Better Understand Neurological Disease

rrfhoward@gmail.com — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 12:37:28 +0000

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, …

Revolutionary Neuroscience Technique Slated for Human Clinical Trials

rrfhoward@gmail.com — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:13:15 +0000

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 …

Precision Optogenetics –

rrfhoward@gmail.com — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:09:51 +0000

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, …