ICPBR Colloquia/Seminars
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Sep 22, 2025Prof. Benjamin Becker: "Decoding and regulating human emotion and motivation – from neural signatures to therapeutic targets"Adaptive emotion and motivation are essential for everyday functioning, and their disruption represents a transdiagnostic feature across major mental and neurological disorders. Existing interventions in these domains often lack efficacy, highlighting the urgent ... -
Sep 18, 2025Dr. XU Rui: "Mapping the human cortical connectome underlying cognition"The human cerebral cortex orchestrates complex cognitive functions, yet its wiring diagram remains poorly understood. We previously showed in macaque monkeys that concurrent electrical stimulation and fMRI (es-fMRI) closely matches gold-standard tract tracing for... -
Jun 16, 2025Prof. BI Guoqiang: "Mesoscale imaging of the nervous system: from brain to body and beyond"The nervous system consists of myriad interconnected neurons that form intricate networks spanning the entire brain and the whole organism. The coordinated neuronal activity in this complex network generates perception, emotion, learning, and consciousness and re... -
Jun 03, 2025Prof. Georg Northoff: "The brain’s Intrinsic Neural Timescales – What are they good for?"One key feature of the brain’s dynamics is its Intrinsic Neural Timescales. While it is well known that the brain exhibits a wide range of different timescales, their role remains yet unclear. Why and how does the brain constitute such different timescales? What... -
May 09, 2025Dr. Mary Donahue: "From Polymers to Neuromodulation: Engineering Bioelectronic Interfaces for Neural Control"The informational density and relative accessibility of the peripheral nervous system make it an attractive site for therapeutic intervention. Although electrode-based electrophysiological interfaces for peripheral nerves have been under development for over half... -
May 09, 2025Prof. Adam Williamson: "Non-invasive Temporal Interference Neuromodulation Reduces Epileptic Burden in Drug-resistant Epilepsy Patients"Approximately 30% of patients with focal epilepsy are not candidates for surgical resection due to the involvement of eloquent cortex, highlighting the need for effective non-invasive alternatives. In this study, we applied non-invasive temporal interference (TI)...