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New Electrical Brain Stimulation Technique Shows Promise in Mice | The New York Times

Pulses of electricity delivered to the brain can help patients with Parkinson’s disease, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and possibly other conditions. But the available methods all have shortcomings: They either involve the risks of surgery, fr
A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation | MIT News

Electrodes placed on the scalp could help patients with brain diseases. ... The new, noninvasive approach could make it easier to adapt deep brain stimulation to treat additional disorders, the researchers say.
CBMM Memo No. 068: ON THE FORGETTING OF COLLEGE ACADEMICS: AT “EBBINGHAUS SPEED”?

"How important are Undergraduate College Academics after graduation? How much do we actually remember after we leave the college classroom, and for how long?..."
Monkeys Have a Specialized Brain Network for Sizing Up Others’ Actions

Scientific American - Neuroscience | Bret Stetka | May 18, 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Julia Sliwa and Prof. Winrich Freiwald on their recent paper in Science.

A dedicated network for social interaction processing in the primate brain, Science, May 19, 2017
Watch the video of Dr. David S. Vogel's Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series talk, "Machine Learning Techniques and Applications in Finance, Healthcare and Recommendation Systems ."

In this talk David S. Vogel, an award-winning predictive modeling scientist, discusses state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and the application of the these techniques to healthcare, recommendation systems, and finance.

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A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation Electrodes placed on the scalp could...

June 1, 2017

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Excerpt: "Delivering an electrical current to a part of the brain involved in movement control has proven successful in treating many Parkinson’s disease patients....

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Hector Penagos: Memories

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Associated Research Thrust:

Neural Circuits for Intelligence, Co-Investigators

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Highlighted publications

CBMM Memo No:

069

A. Volokitin, Roig, G., and Poggio, T., “Do Deep Neural Networks Suffer from Crowding?”. 2017.

CBMM Memo No:

068

B. Subirana, Bagiati, A., and Sarma, S., “On the Forgetting of College Academice: at "Ebbinghaus Speed"?”. 2017.

N. Grossman, Bono, D., Dedic, N., Kodandaramaiah, S. B., Rudenko, ii, A., Suk, H. - J., Cassara, A. M., Neufeld, E., Kuster, N., Tsai, L. - H., Pascu...

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Machine Learning Techniques and Applications in Finance, Healthcare and Recommendation Systems

David Vogel, Trustee (Voloridge Investment Management, LLC)
Abstract: The introductory portion of this talk will review some state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. We will discuss concepts of...

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