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Book publication by BCF/RIKEN members: "Analysis of Parallel Spike Trains"
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Stefan Rotter (BCF) and Sonja Gruen (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan and Bernstein Center Berlin) edited the book "Analysis of Parallel Spike Trains". With 20 individual contributions, written by leading experts in the field, the book offers a comprehensive overview over state-of-the-art methods for the analysis of coordinated neuronal activity in the brain. It is directed at scientists and advanced students from the fields of Systems Neurobiology and Computational Neuroscience. The book is available now.
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Prediction of epileptic seizures by analyzing brain waves
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A team of physicists, physicians and neuroscientists at the Bernstein Center of the University Freiburg made a step forward towards the ambitious goal of predicting epileptic seizures, as published in the latest issue of the journal “Epilepsia”. Professor Andreas Schulze-Bonhage, head of the Epilepsy Center at the University Hospital Freiburg: “Unfortunately, a considerable fraction of all epilepsy patients do not respond well to commonly used pharmaceuticals. For these patients, an automatic prediction of their suddenly occurring seizures would offer great benefit – they could prepare for the epileptic attack, for example by taking fast-acting medicine.”
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New article in the Journal of Neuroscience: Gating of signal propagation in spiking neural networks by balanced and correlated excitation and inhibition
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In every waking minute, we have to make decisions – sometimes within a split second. Neuroscientists at the Bernstein Center Freiburg have now discovered a possible explanation how the brain chooses between alternative options. The key lies in extremely fast changes in the communication between single nerve cells.
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New article in PLoS Computational Biology: Self-Organized Criticality in Developing Neuronal Networks
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PLoS Computational Biology has published an article, co-authored by members of the BCCN Göttingen, the Bernstein Center Freiburg, and the Neuroinformatics Group of Amsterdam University. In their paper, the authors describe the maturation of cortical cell cultures and their mathematical analysis and network modeling to elucidate the different phases observed during development.
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Nature Neuroscience publishes article by BCF member
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Lichtenberg Professor Marlene Bartos from the Institute for Physiology I and the Bernstein Center of the University of Freiburg and colleagues Peer Wulff from the University of Aberdeen and William Wisden from the Imperial College London describe how they were able to specifically switch off inhibiting “interneurons” in the hippocampus of mice - and how this affected the animals' memory formation.
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How clear is our view of brain activity?
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BCF researchers publish article in "Human Brain Mapping", demonstrating the large influence of filtering algorithms on results in brain imaging
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Masked fears
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New article by BCF scientists in PLoS Computational Biology explains the origin of fear processes in the brain – and why it is so difficult to overcome them
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Thinking outside the column
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BCF members publish in "Frontiers in Neuroscience": New insights into brain structure reveal new facets of information processing in the nervous system
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Article by BCF members in PLoS Computational Biology on learning from dopamine signals
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Wiebke Potjans, alumna of the BCF, has published together with members Markus Diesmann and Abigail Morrison the paper "An Imperfect Dopaminergic Error Signal Can Drive Temporal-Difference Learning". Their research paves the way for further investigations of the dopaminergic system in reward learning in the healthy brain and in pathological conditions such as Parkinson's disease.
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How does network structure shape brain activity?
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New article in PLoS Computational Biology relates correlations in the activity of nerve cells to the detailed structure of the underlying network
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