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Researchers simulate epileptic seizure propagation in healthy tissue

10 February 2023

Researchers of the Human Brain Project have simulated how an epilepsy seizure spreads through healthy tissue in the brain, potentially increasing the precision of virtual predictive tools available to clinicians. The study, carried out by Damien Depannemaecker at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience in France, has been published in the journal eNeuro.

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The redwoods of the cortex

13 January 2023

In dealing with the world’s dynamic, complex, ever-changing nature, the complexity of the brain does not fall short of the complexity of the world. Brain complexity can be found across all its levels, from its network function down to the level of single brain cells (and beyond).

New NEST Facility Hub available to the community

04 January 2023

The NEST Facility Hub, operated by the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany, represents an organizational point of contact that can be approached both from the NEST user and developer side, as well as from the infrastructure side.