Neuroscience

The human brain is the main object of research in neuroscience.

Its aim is to better diagnose and cure neurological disorders. This includes work on the structural and molecular organization as well as cognitive processes of the healthy and diseased brain, and the development of the brain throughout a human life. For these purposes, Jülich’s researchers make use of methods – such as imaging techniques and nuclear-chemistry processes – that are themselves being further developed at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM). Close cooperation exists with university hospitals, including those in Aachen, Cologne, and Düsseldorf. Investigations into the brain and how it works are based on complex theoretical models that are constantly being refined by means of empiric data and computer simulations. Ethical issues associated with neuroscience are also addressed.

Further information

a

Expert article

Brain Research and Artificial Intelligence – What Brain Scans Tell Us

Every brain is truly unique. Once it has been scanned in a conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, any doctor can use reference images to show you certain distinctive features in the structure of your brain. Not all differences can be detected from such scans, however, even by a radiologist’s or brain researcher’s trained eye. Yet artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of doing so – and this capability has far-reaching implications.

a

Notification

Neural Networks: Chaos Pays Off

Creative geniuses have known it all along: Chaos improves your intellectual capacity. At least, it may be useful when it comes to networked neurons, as a scientific paper of Forschungszentrum Jülich has now shown. The newly discovered mechanism could also help speed up artificial neural networks used in artificial intelligence and machine learning applications.

a

Helmholtz Incubator

Helmholtz AI

Helmholtz AI is a research cooperation platform in the field of applied artificial intelligence (AI). The platform has been set up to advance and apply AI across the whole Helmholtz Association in order to establish its international leadership position in the field. At Forschungszentrum Jülich, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) and the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) together form the Helmholtz AI Local Unit for the research field ‘Information’.

Last Modified: 17.05.2023