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Researchers in the EPFL Brain Mind Institute (BMI) develop and deploy technology to understand brain systems across scales from theory, to molecules, cells, circuits and behavior.

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Credit: EPFL / Galina Limorenko. Illustration depicting how exposingTDP-43 fibril core enhances pathology formation in cell.

How a highly unstable protein may lead to neurodegeneration

Published:05.06.23 — EPFL scientists reproduce key features of pathological protein aggregates found in the brain of patients with Lou Gehrig's disease and other neurological diseases, providing insight into the underlying mechanism and offering promising avenues for new therapies.

© 2023 EPFL / Ella Marushchenko. The brain's neural activity is largely hidden in complex, nonlinear systems, much like how we can only see the surface of icebergs.

Predict what a mouse sees by decoding brain signals

Published:04.05.23 — A research team from EPFL has developed a novel machine-learning algorithm that can reveal the hidden structure in data recorded from the brain, predicting complex information such as what mice see.

James Priestley. Credit: Alain Herzog (EPFL)

“We teach mice to play video games!”

Published:12.04.23 — James Priestley is a new Scholar in the EPFL Life Sciences Independent Research (ELISIR) program. His research focuses on memory, using, among others, virtual reality to study how mice store new information in their hippocampus.

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