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Centre for Integrative Brain Dynamics

A Virtual Human Brain

There is a global race underway to pull off a neuroscience feat that is comparable to decoding the human genome— it's the creation of a virtual human brain. Leading the race is Baycrest with our scientific collaborators from around the world.

For more information, please contact Tanya Brown, Program Manager of The Virtual Brain
tbrown@research.baycrest.org
416-785-2500 x.2782

  • The Centre is leading the development of the world’s first integrated computer model of a fully functioning human brain, the virtual brain.
  • Derived from massive amounts of imaging data from hundreds of thousands of healthy humans across the globe.
  • The “virtual brain” simulates how the brain is functioning under various normal conditions, how it changes with the aging process and how it responds to damage from trauma or disease
  • The model can be used to test experimental brain therapies on a computer before being tested in animals and humans.