46 EduCases for The Virtual Brain.
Learning by doing.
Simulating the human brain is the holy grail of neuroscience – offering a pioneering tool for understanding how our brain works and how to deal with its disorders like stroke, epilepsy or neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
While large-scale research initiatives simulate neurons and small brain regions at the cellular level on massively parallel hardware, they are still years away from clinical applications.
The Virtual Brain (TVB) takes a different approach and reduces complexity on the micro level to attain the macro organization: a TVB model of a patient's brain generates sufficiently accurate EEG, MEG, BOLD and SEEG signals by reducing the complexity millionfold through methods from statistical physics. The key is TVB’s hybrid approach of merging individual anatomy from brain imaging data with state-of-the-art mathematical modeling.
In a nutshell:
you can simulate a human brain with TVB right now, for free and with access to the source code – on average MacBooks, faculty Linux servers or supercomputers like Piz Daint in CSCS Lugano.
Since its early beginnings as network equations scribbled on a bar coaster in 2008, TVB has gained wide recognition – demonstrated by regular invitations to participate at neuroinformatics events such as INCF conferences, and workshops dedicated to High Performance Computing (HPC) (such as organized by NSG).
Today, TVB is a reference tool for full-brain simulation. TVB serves as the simulation engine in the world’s first clinical trial on predictive brain modeling in epilepsy surgery (EPINOV). TVB is also the choice of full-brain simulator in Europe’s digital research infrastructure EBRAINS and directly links to other large-scale neuroinformatics efforts such as the Allen Institute’s Mouse atlas or the Human Brain Project (HBP).
A large, growing user base of clinicians and scientists are working every day with TVB, citing its scientific groundwork in well over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Dedicated research facilities at Charité in Berlin, AMU in Marseille and Baycrest in Toronto have constructed and simulated almost 1000 individual, Connectome-based brain network models and published their findings, clocking in upwards of 10 million CPU core hours.
TVB at SfN 2024
October 5–9
Chicago, USA
Join The Virtual Brain at SfN 2023
November 11–15
Washington DC, USA
Fall School 2023: The Virtual Brain in Clinical Research
September 5 – November 21
Online Event
Highlights of the HBP summit
Marseille, France
Society for Neuroscience 2022
November 12–16
San Diego, USA
World Health Summit 2022
October 16–18
Berlin, Germany
9th TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows Workshop
Digital Event
Visit us at FENS
July 9–13
Paris, France
April 8
This new paper from TVB's research group at INS in Marseille was published in National Science Review and presents a formalized and comprehensive conceptual framework as the starting point for virtual brain twins.
Specifically, it provides a formal definition of a virtual brain twin and its key elem
December 24
Happy Holidays everyone! We’d like to take a moment to congratulate Prof. Dr. Randy McIntosh and Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter, for their new positions as chair & deputy chair of INCF. As part of the governing board and chairs of the organization, both will be a great support to the goals of the INCF - enabling open and FAIR science - by means of standardization, reproducibility and best practices when
September 6
A new EBRAINS-led neuroscience project has been awarded a 10 million Euro grant by the European Commission, as part of the Horizon Health Europe Calls 2023 initiative.
The proposal, titled [Virtual Brain Twin for personalized treatment of Psychiatric Disorders](https://www.virtualbraintwin.eu "Visit
May 3
We would like to announce and congratulate the launch of Testing and Experimentation Facility Health AI and Robotics TEF-Health, a project funded by the European Union and member states with 60 million Euros. Our own co-founder of The Virtual Brain, Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter, leads this new project, as well as the Brain Simulation Section at Charité in Berlin.
TEF-Health has over 51 participants
November 11
Just in time for SfN 2022 in San Diego, we're releasing TVB 2.7.1 with over 40 improvements including bug fixes and dependencies upgrades.
Head over to our download page and get your update for Windows, macOS and Linux now!
If you have questions or would like to see a demo, visit our *[booth 3116](https://twitter.com/CourtiolJulie
June 14
The Brain Simulation Section is proud to announce that the eBRAIN-Health project: Actionable Multilevel Health Data, coordinated by Prof. Petra Ritter, has been funded with € 13Mill by Horizon Europe.
This comprehensive European infrastructure project is done in collaboration with EBRAINS AISBL and 18 additional European partners.
The project aims to develop a new federated
June 13
CORDIS recently featured EBRAINS Virtual Brain Cloud Facility Hub Services in its online article: "Making brain research easier with open-source software".
TVB on EBRAINS services were developed under the lead of the Brain Simulation Section at the Charité, and can be accessed here.
May 5
The Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes in Marseille is happy to announce a workshop collaboration with Michael Betancourt, a core developer of the popular platform Stan and expert on Hamilton Monte Carlo!
Bayesian Data Analysis is a key methodology for advanced brain simulation with The Virtual Brain, as can be seen in the [Bayesian Virtual Epileptic Patient](https://www.sciencedirec