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Christian's main interests are related to better understanding the brain across spatial and temporal scales in order to address complex neurodevelopmental issues such as autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Illustration by Jeremy Leung, Published 14:37, May. 19, 2021 In the ’90s, when he was a doctoral student at the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, neuroscientist Sean Hill spent five years studying how cat brains respond to noise. At the time, researchers knew that two regions—the cerebral cortex, which is the outer layer of the brain, and the thalamus, a nut-like structure near the centre—did most of the work. But, when an auditory signal entered the brain through the ear, what happened, specifically? Which parts of the cortex and thalamus did the signal travel to? And in wh...
Scientific American Beware the hype about remaking neuroscience through technology, writes the director of the new documentary In Silico Advertisement Twelve years ago, when I graduated college, I was well aware of the Silicon Valley hype machine, but I considered the salesmanship of private tech companies a world away from objective truths about human biology I had been taught in neuroscience classes. At the time, I saw the neuroscientist Henry Markram proclaim in a TED talk that he had figured out a way to simulate an entire human brain on supercomputers within 10 years. This computer-simu...
Documentary chronicles a 10-year quest to simulate the entire human brain Apr 7 2021 With major funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the film IN SILICO is bringing the opportunities and challenges of "big data" neuroscience to virtual screens across North America on April 30th. The independent documentary chronicles an audacious 10-year quest to simulate the entire human brain. IN SILICO will show through May 29th in select theaters, debuting at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Massachusetts. The film follows neuroscientist Henry Markram who, frustrated with his field's status quo, sets...
New study settles battle of the sexes, finds hardly any difference between male and female brains By Asian News Share Washington - A team of researchers at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science studied different research works on the differences between men and women's brains and concluded that the two brains are hardly different from one another. "Men and women's brains do differ slightly, but the key finding is that these distinctions are due to brain size, not sex or gender," researcher Dr Eliot said. "Sex differences in the brain are tiny and inconsistent, once individu...