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The European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN)

The European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN) was created on March 2014 as part of the Theoretical Neuroscience activities of the Human Brain Project (HBP) and is operated by the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (Neuro-PSI), unit of the CNRS.
The EITN has for scientific director Alain Destexhe (Neuro-PSI, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette).


NEWS

 

16/02/2021 - Save the date! Online workshop "Multisite recordings and distributed representations in the macaque brain"

Our online workshop on "Multisite recordings and distributed representations in the macaque brain" will take place on March 10th, 2021.

Organized by Alain Destexhe, Frédéric Chavane, and Viktor Jirsa.

Multisite recordings have progressed tremendously in the last years, following the availability of new recording techniques, microelectrode arrays, high-density microprobes, new dyes for imaging, etc. Such techniques provide invaluable data on the “mesoscale”, spanning typically over one or two brain areas. In parallel, progress have been made in the computational description of mesoscale activity using population models, going from brain regions up to the whole brain. The goal of this workshop is to put together experimentalists and theoreticians working at the mesoscale level of large networks in the macaque brain, and evaluate which new tools (such as TVB or EBRAINS) would be needed to facilitate this interaction.

Stay tuned! More information coming soon.

 

01/02/2021 - Publication highlight "Data-driven reduction of dendritic morphologies with preserved dendro-somatic responses"

Willem AM Wybo, Jakob Jordan, Benjamin Ellenberger, Ulisses Marti Mengual, Thomas Nevian, and Walter Senn

Learn more about this research in the press release by the Universität Bern

 

26/01/2021 - Save the date! Online workshop "Whole-brain simulations of the monkey brain"

Our online workshop on "Whole-brain simulations of the monkey brain" will take place on February 4th.

Organized by Alain Destexhe, Frédéric Chavane, and Viktor Jirsa.

In this workshop, we would like to discuss the modeling of large-scale activity in the macaque brain, in particular using population models. In a first part, we will discuss the mesoscale (millimeters), were phenomena like propagating waves were recorded in high resolution and modeled at the level of an entire brain area in visual cortex. In a second part, we would like to discuss this approach to model large-scale brain-wide phenomena, using tools such as The Virtual Brain and EBRAINS.

Attendance is free, but registration is mandatory. Click here for more info and link to registration.

 

22/01/2021 - Publication highlight "Astrocyte-mediated spike-timing-dependent long-term depression modulates synaptic properties in the developing cortex"

By Tiina Manninen, Ausra Saudargiene, and Marja-Leena Linne.

This paper was highlighted by the Human Brain Project, and one of the figure was selected as the cover of the PLoS Computational Biology issue the article was published in (November 2020).

 

21/01/2021 - Publication highlight "A kernel-based method to calculate local field potentials from networks of spiking neurons"

By Bartosz Teleńczuk, Maria Teleńczuk, and Alain Destexhe

Full paper available here.

 

12/01/2021 - Save the date!

EITN Fall school will take place from 15th to 24th of September 2021. More info on the (previously) EITN Spring School on our dedicated page.

 

11/01/2021 - Publication Highlight - "Biophysically detailed forward modeling of the neural origin of EEG and MEG signals"

By Solveig Næss, Geir Halnes, Espen Hagen, Donald J. Hagler, Anders M. Dale, Gaute T. Einevoll, and Torbjørn V. Ness.

 

06/01/2021 - The EITN Team wish you all a very happy new year of 2021.

 

18/12/2020 - Publication Highlight - "Conditions for wave trains in spiking neural networks"

By Johanna Senk, Karolína Korvasová, Jannis Schuecker, Espen Hagen, Tom Tetzlaff, Markus Diesmann, and Moritz Helias.

 

15/12/2020 - Feedback on EITN workshop

The workshop "Neural coding in high-dimensional, nonlinear systems" as been successfully happening online on December 3rd & 4th, 2020. Learn more in the article published on Human Brain Project website.

 

16/11/2020 - Publication Highlight - "Revisiting the Global Workspace: Orchestration of the functional hierarchical organisation of the human brain"

Currently in press by Gustavo Deco, Diego Vidaurre and Morten L. Kringelbach.

See the latest publications on our HBP Publications in Theoretical Neuroscience ressource page.

06/10/2020 - Publication Highlight - "A kernel-based method to calculate local field potentials from network of spiking neurons"

A new paper has been published by EITN researchers Bartosz Telenczuk, Maria Telenczuk, and Alain Destexhe in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods (17 July 2020): A kernel-based method to calculate local field potentials from networks of spiking neurons. Hereafter is a related highlight (in French) by Life Sciences Université Paris-Saclay. 

See the latest publications on our HBP Publications in Theoretical Neuroscience ressource page.