News & Press Releases

In the scope of the EBRAINS 2.0 project, a set of four Open Calls were opened on June 20th, 10:00 CEST, that aim to integrate new data and workflows into EBRAINS.

The 10th EBRAINS Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroscience 2024 “From Neurons to The Virtual Brain, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence” took place on the Silja Symphony Cruise Ship Helsinki-Stockholm-Helsinki on May 29-31, 2024, providing an unconventional and inspiring atmosphere for academic discourse on the Baltic Sea.

EBRAINS was present at the International Conference on Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering (ICNCE 2024), which took place in Aachen, Germany, from June 3rd to 6th.

The Spanish EBRAINS Node meeting on human memory circuits was held in a truly inspiring venue – the lecture theatre where Santiago Ramon y Cajal, a Nobel Prize-winning Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system, imparted his knowledge at Madrid’s former Medical Faculty. It is fair to say that the scientific level of the presentations and subsequent discussions would have been met with the approval of one of the pioneers of modern neuroscience.

The EBRAINS research infrastructure recently announced a strategic collaboration on a neuroscience pilot project with SciLake, an EU-funded project that supports open science.

Schizophrenia affects approximately 1% of the world's population. The clinical effectiveness of the antipsychotics on the market remains limited with 30 to 50% of schizophrenic patients showing an insufficient response to treatment.

EBRAINS is pleased to announce that the Medical University of Varna has joined the EBRAINS AISBL as an associate member.

Neuroscience has entered a new, digital phase. The combination of brain research with supercomputing in large-scale, multi-disciplinary research collaborations has enabled an innovative approach to deciphering the brain, using powerful scientific technologies and data ressources. These developments open up new possibilities for brain research, medicine and technology. A position paper by over 100 authors, now published in the journal Imaging Neuroscience, summarises the current status and identifies the key points for further developments in digital neuroscience.

A position paper by over 100 authors, now published in the journal Imaging Neuroscience, summarizes the development of digital neuroscience, the current status and further goals in the new research field. In this interview, the lead author, internationally renowned brain researcher Prof. Katrin Amunts, gives an insight into the content and origins of the paper.

In a new study enabled by the EBRAINS research infrastructure, a team at Heidelberg University (Germany) made advances in the field of neuromorphic engineering, enhancing the platform BrainScaleS-2 and paving the way for high-speed robotics.

Alzheimer's researchers from Italy have used The Virtual Brain simulator on EBRAINS to model Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression in patients.