Month: March 2023

Events

BrainFair Zurich 2023 on learning

March 1, 2023
How does the brain learn? What is the role of genetic factors, the environment, and personal experiences? Which connections of our neural network are enforced during learning, and which are reduced? And how well do […]
In the Spotlight

Improving personalized wearables

March 1, 2023
Melika Payvand, SNSF Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich (UZH), was awarded an SNSF Starting Grant. In February, she started working on her project “UNITE: Brain-inspired device-circuits-algorithm co-design for resource-constrained hardware on the edge” […]
Research News

Detecting covert consciousness

March 1, 2023
Neurocritical patients that are clinically unresponsive can show a wide variety of covert consciousness. The terms minimal conscious state (MSC) and unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) were established to distinguish patients who still show signs of […]
Research News

Blots and brains

March 1, 2023
A scene as if from a movie: A psychiatrist’s practice. On the soft and comfortable chair sits a patient. On the other side of the desk, the renowned psychiatrist. In the psychiatrist’s hands: A piece […]