A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

Dr. Orengo serves as a co-investigator in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) at Baylor College of Medicine. This NIH funded multi-site collaborative effort is designed to use high level sequencing ...

Columbia University has been awarded up to $15 million from the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Foundation. The grant will fund activities by Columbia’s newly established Center for Motor Neuron Biology ...

New York, NY (October 11, 2012) — A study by scientists from the Motor Neuron Center at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) suggests that spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic neuromuscular ...

Can our consciousness be traced back to a simple neurological link? A team of researchers has suggested that in the cortex of the brain, a type of nerve cell, L5p neurons, are the connection between ...

Now, using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), UC Santa Barbara researchers Sudhanshu Srivastava, Miguel Eckstein and William Wang have uncovered the underpinnings of covert attention, and in the ...