Computational neuroscientists have used IBM’s Blue Gene L supercomputer to model an entire “biologically accurate” mammalian neocortical column–that’s 10,000 neurons and 3,000,000 connections.
Models like these can be used to test all kinds of things, like drugs and therapies. What happens when scientists run experiments not on real brains or real neuronal structures, but on […]
thoughts on technology and the politics of psychopharmacology
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