Knowledge concerning dentate gyrus, CA3, CA2, CA1, subiculum, and entorhinal cortex is distilled from published evidence and is continuously updated as new information becomes available. Each reported neuronal property is documented with a pointer to, and excerpt from, relevant published evidence, such as citation quotes or illustrations.
OnAir Post: Hippocampome Portal
Allen Cell Data Base, BRAIN Initiative, BigNeuron, ENGMA, Hippocampom, Human Brain Project, Neuromorpho.org, National Information Framework, and Reverse Engineer Brain.
OnAir Post: Brain Projects Summary
NeuroMorpho.Org is the largest collection of publicly accessible 3D neuronal reconstructions. The goal of NeuroMorpho.Org is to provide dense coverage of available reconstruction data for the neuroscience community enabling the full and continuing research potential of existing digital reconstruction data.
Website: neuromorpho.org
OnAir Post: Neuromorpho.org
The first release includes information on just 240 neurons out of hundreds of thousands in the mouse visual cortex, with a focus on the electrophysiology of those individual cells: the electrical pulses that tell a neuron to fire, initiating a pattern of neural activation that results in perception and action.
OnAir Post: Allen Cell Types Database
The BRAIN Initiative will accelerate the development and application of new technologies to produce dynamic pictures of the brain that show how individual brain cells and complex neural circuits interact. These technologies will open new doors to explore how the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves vast quantities of information, and the complex links between brain function and behavior.
OnAir Post: BRAIN Initiative Overview
The key idea is to create a single platform on which all algorithms can be run, compared, and their results combined to form reconstructions better than any one could achieve alone.
See also Allen Cell Type Data Bases post.
OnAir Post: BigNeuron
Enigma is an acronym for Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta Analysis. ENIGMA has found 8 common gene mutations leading to brain age in over 30,000 brain scans that may some day unlock mysteries of Alzheimer’s, autism and other neurological disorders.
OnAir Post: ENIGMA mapping brain’s genetic code
Established in 2013, directed by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, the HBP is largely funded by the European Union, The project is based in Geneva, Switzerland. The project was initially coordinated by Professor Henry Markram although its governance and scientific direction are undergoing major changes.
OnAir Post: Human Brain Project
These resources include experimental, clinical, and translational neuroscience databases, knowledge bases, atlases, and genetic/genomic resources and provides many authoritative links throughout the neuroscience portal of Wikipedia.
Link to NIF Hub
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia July 1, 2015
OnAir Post: Neuroscience Information Framework
A lot of research has been focused on creating thinking machines—computers capable of emulating human intelligence— however, reverse-engineering the brain could have multiple impacts that go far beyond artificial intelligence and will promise great advances in health care, manufacturing, and communication.
OnAir Post: Reverse-Engineer the Brain – Grand Challenge
