Simulating the Brain - Caligiore, Daniele

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Résumé :
This book presents a new methodology to develop system-level brain models using ordinary differential equations (ODE), which are to be solved and analyzed through simple Python scripts. Computer simulations of this kind of models allow the study of healthy and damaged brain functions, the discovery of new neural pathways that may be crucial for the emergence of pathologies, and to simulate the effects of possible new therapies acting on brain actors which are difficult to investigate in traditional research.The methodology consists of four steps: (i) design the model architecture which represents the interactions between different brain areas...

Biographie:
Daniele Caligiore is a Research Director at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), where he coordinates the Computational and Translational Neuroscience Laboratory (CTNLab). This interdisciplinary research group leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and computational neuroscience to study brain function and behavior. The CTNLab ultimate goal is to discover new clinical applications and therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. He is the director and co-founder of the Advanced School in Artificial Intelligence (AS-AI), a postgraduate institution supported by ISTC, dedicated to the interdisciplinary study and application of AI. Additionally, he teaches Artificial Intelligence Systems in Social Contexts at the Libera Università...

Sommaire:
(ii) write the ODE system which are implied by the model...