Human Brain Mapping

Satellite Meetings Details regarding satellite meetings that are being held in conjunction with OHBM 2012 are listed below. The OHBM has not been involved with the planning of these activities…

Arguably more ambitious than the Human Genome Project or the Apollo program, the Brain Research Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative endeavors to demystify our least understood organ—and…

Abstract Submission Abstract submission for the 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping to be held in Barcelona, Spain, June 6-10, 2010 is now closed. Abstract Fee There…

Call for Educational Courses and Scientific Symposia All interested OHBM members are invited to submit an application for a half-day/full-day educational course or scientific program (workshop/symposia)…

US President Barack Obama today officially launched an ambitious multi-year project to probe the human brain in action. In a preview of his 2014 budget request, expected next week, he said he…

The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) is committed to the involvement of trainees in its annual meetings. To help encourage this, the OHBM offers a limited number of travel awards…

The Matrix may not be fantasy anymore. The virtual reality shown in Avatar could be with us any time now, and at the same time, scientists are getting closer to decoding what goes on inside our…

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REUTERS U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Feb. 12, 2013. To navigate something as complex and dynamic as the brain, a map…

The New York Times spotlights a new era of unprecedented progress in brain mapping; what does it mean for the autism community? In today’s The New York Times, “The Brain in Exquisite Detail”…

The Brain Games Begin Europe’s billion-Euro science-neuro Human Brain Project, mentioned here amongst machine morality last week, is basically already funded and well underway. Now the colonies…

An ambitious new government-led research initiative aims to fully map the human brain. It s called The Brain Initiative, and the goal is to advance understanding of how the brain works and develop…

The brain has been the last terra incognita of the body for medical exploration, largely because its matter is so different from that of the rest of the body. In 1986 the eminent evolutionary…

Fig. 1: Three-dimensional rendering of a clarified mouse brain (Chung et al. 2013) To date, mapping of the brain is possible only in limited ways. Due to light scattering by the tissue, conventional…

The human brain is a knot of 100 billion neurons and support cells. We can store a lifetime of memories there. We can use it to write sonnets and build airplanes. Sure, an elephant s brain is…

A few years ago, I had the pleasure of in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry: His specimen—this fragile cortex—is falling apart. Dying, the gray matter turns acidic and begins…

Exhibit Information 2010 Exhibitors Please click here to view a listing of the 2010 Exhibitors. Exhibit Application and Deposit Due: April 1, 2010 Exhibition booths are 3m x 3m floor space. Walls…

2010 Trainee Abstract Awards The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) is committed to the involvement of trainees in its annual meetings. To help encourage this, the OHBM offers a limited…

Advantages of Publishing in Human Brain Mapping Reaching a Targeted Audience of Researchers Devoted to Functional Neuroanatomy and Neuroimaging. Human Brain Mapping’s readership consists of neuroscientists…

We are entering a new era in the neurosciences, in which development of technology will be in the spotlight. In this Focus, experts outline the different technologies needed to obtain anatomical…

• (Oct ’15) IIT Human Brain Atlas v.4.1 Released: The new version includes improvements to the white matter atlas and new HOW-TO documents. • (Oct ’15) New Paper: Regional neocortical gray matter…

This image shows data from the Allen Institute s Human Brain Map, … (Allen Institute for Brain…) The achievement marks a major milestone for the Allen Institute, which previously had released…

I’m probably one of the first who created mind maps that do not start from the centre (see How to create a tree with a mind map) or do not contain obvious main branches (see How to create a timeline…

Researchers used a special tool called a microtome cut a human brain preserved in paraffin wax into 20-micrometre thick slivers and map its anatomical structure with high resolution. An international…