Colloquium: Whole-brain modelling: An essential tool for understanding brain dynamics

20 January 2025

Colloquium by Prof. Dr. Gustavo Deco, Computational Neuroscience Group, Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Abstract: Over the last decades, there have been very slow progress in the understanding and diagnosis of neuropsychiatric disorders, mainly due to a lack of causal insight into their biological mechanisms. This has been further compounded by the numerous statistically significant yet minimally distinguishing findings in neuropsychiatric disorders. Reliable animal models are rare and the problems with current treatments indicate that new research strategies are needed to treat neuropsychiatric disorder . Moving beyond correlational analysis of healthy brain function requires the mechanistic understanding afforded by whole-brain modelling. Whole-brain modelling is an excellent tool for moving beyond these limitations. In silico whole-brain models are designed using neuroimaging data of patients’ brains used to identify pathologies and appropriate interventions. This essential tool provides new relevant insights for neuroscientists and clinicians as they work to discover the fundamental principles of healthy brain function that can eventually help to rebalance the brain in disease.

Further information about the speakers can be found here: https://barccsyn.org/groups/computational-neuroscience-group

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Date and time: January 20th, 2025, 17:00
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