University of Waterloo release on SPAUN.Dr Eliasmith's paper in Science on SPAUN.TED talk on Blue Brian/Human Brain simulation by Dr.Rafaele Yuste's TEDMED talk on the Brain Activity Map More information and articles on the BRAIN initiative/Brain activity map.Rotman Research Institute - The Virtual Brain app.His work involves a brain simulation called SPAUN, which encompasses less detail, but models more of the large-scale structure and behaviours of the human brain. He's also Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience. Chris Eliasmith is a Professor of Philosophy, Engineering, and Computer Science, and director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo. It's an outgrowth of the Blue Brain project, which simulated, in great detail, a small section of a rat's brain.
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The Human Brain project has as its goal the simulation of the full activity of the human brain. Sean Hill is co-Principal Investigator on the European Union's Human Brian project, head-quartered at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, and announced in January. It aspires to build technologies to map the activity of the whole human brain - down to the individual neuron. BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), announced in April. He was one of the architects of the proposal that has become the U.S. Dr Rafael Yuste is Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience and co-Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University. The ultimate goals of these projects include understanding the nature of the mind, how we think, and how our biological brains produce consciousness but also to understand better the diseases of the brain and the mind, so we can treat them more effectively. But neuroscientists are embarking on large and ambitious projects to map the activity of the human brain, and to simulate the full complexity of the brain in a computer. Neuron - courtesy EFPL/Blue Brain project While we have made great strides in understanding distant galaxies, the sub-atomic world and the richness of biology, we're still a long way from understanding the very thing we use to understand those things: the human mind and the brain that produces it. In theory, there may be an optimal time of day to eat fruits and vegetables, in order to maximize their nutritional value. The same chemicals - phytochemicals - also give cabbage the nutritional value known to fight off cancer. Janet Braam, Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Plant Biology at Rice University in Houston, found that in their experiment, cabbage was better at producing the chemicals essential for warding off insects if it was allowed to maintain its circadian rhythm. Because they are, in fact, still alive, even in the brightly lit produce section, they continue to metabolize. The same is true - it turns out - of many fruits and vegetables, even after they have been harvested. When that cycle is upset, problems can arise as our bodies strive to maintain that rhythm. It explains, in part, why we want to sleep at night. The circadian rhythm is a biological process linked to cycles of light and dark.
Paper in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.The suggestion - therefore - is that the next megathrust earthquake could hit the West Coast any time between today and the next 700 years. The greatest amount of time between quakes was 1,000 years, and the last one was 300 years ago. reveal 22 such quakes over the last 11,000 years. Disturbances in core sediment samples are created by earthquakes. Audrey Dallimore, a Professor at the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University in Victoria, suggests that a megathrust earthquake could occur in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, off the coast of British Columbia, sooner than we may think. Megathrust quakes are usually accompanied by a tsunami. There have only been two known since records have been kept, over the last one-hundred years: one in the Indian Ocean in 2004 and one off the coast of Japan two years ago. This model shows a tsunami making its way into the Strait of Juan de FucaA megathrust earthquake is one that measures between 8 and 9 on the earthquake scale, and only occurs when the heavier ocean plate subducts under a continental plate.
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