EEG is in the Air “I’m looking up because that is where I want to be” Anonymous … most likely an aviator. Brain imaging techniques are usually cumbersome and require to be used in controlled lab environments to avoid the well known artefacts. That is why, as a neuroscientist, I have always been […]
It’s a dire truth that most drugs people are prescribed will fail to help them. Take the US top-selling medicament for high-cholesterol (Rosuvastatin), or the one routinely used to treat asthma (Fluticasone propionate): they can improve the conditions only for 1 patient in 20. And they are not exceptions. In fact, the success rate of […]
Photo via PlusLexia More than 1% people are autistic. People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) mainly present problems in social communication and interaction, and restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour, interests or activities. Hence, children with ASD may have problems understanding gestures, spoken language, spoken metaphors, recognising own and others’ emotions, and feel […]
As we have already discussed in a previous blog on Brain Consciousness and Complexity, algorithmic complexity is an intrinsic property of the brain dynamics, and be estimated through the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm from the EEG (electroencephalogram) signals (Figure X0). In this blog we discuss our recent paper on the relationship between algorithmic complexity and prognosis of […]
Someone knew someone who almost died. And when that happened, this person was able to see their own body, from above, lying in that bed. Inert. This, a classical out-of-body experience (Figure 1A), refers to the sensation that a person’s consciousness seems to become detached from the body, taking remote viewing position. Generally called body […]
Let’s face it: frogs are not the most glamorous of animals…However, we owe a great deal to them! In 1780, Luigi Galvani found out that muscles of frog’s legs would twitch if in contact with electrical stimuli. Today we know that this is due to one remarkable property of biological tissues: the fact that they […]
Have you ever imagined how many sensors, signal processing and subtasks it takes for the body to process and execute a success command? The recent paper by Crea et al (Scientific Reports 2018) represents an exciting step towards the development of practical brain-computer interfaces (BCI). In this case, the development is designed for patients […]
Clustering methods are in charge of grouping sets of data objects with the aim of finding relationships within the objects that compose the data. Such a process allows the data scientist to find similarities within the data, draw inferences, find hidden patterns and also to reconstruct a possibly underlying data structure. For example the relative […]
Transcranial current stimulation (tCS) seems to be a powerful tool to make the link between brain function and disease. This has been demonstrated in current research. However, we have yet to fully understand the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of tCS. The goal of combining tCS with neurophysiological and neuroimaging tools is twofold: a) these techniques can […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been part of our imaginations and simmering in research labs since a group of computer scientists rallied around this topic at the Dartmouth Conference in 1956. They would give birth to the field of AI. In the decades since, AI has exploded, especially since 2015. Much of that has to do with […]