Cognitive decline and forgetting things as we get older is almost a right of passage. All those ‘senior moments’ seem like an unavoidable part of life. Of course, as with most things, it is not binary. There exists a broad continuum that affects and impacts different individuals very differently, shaped…

Modern day science tends to be highly interdisciplinary. It increasingly requires different technical topics, skills, and expertise to come together to solve complex and challenging problems and questions. The image of the isolated scientist working alone in their lab for periods on end, emerging only to share a great discovery…

In general, the tremendous success and achievements of the many flavors of machine learning (ML) are based on variations of gradient descent algorithms that minimize some version of a cost or loss function. At their core, existing algorithms take advantage of the stochastic convergence of weights in neural networks, with…

There are many methods and tools available to study complex systems. But understanding how the structural connectivity of a network constrains the dynamics the network is able to support is a difficult question to formulate and answer, and remains a very active and open area of research. In a recent…

Everything the human brain is capable of is the product of a complex symphony of interactions between many distinct signaling events and myriad of individual computations. The brain’s ability to learn, connect abstract concepts, adapt, and imagine, are all the result of this vast combinatorial computational space. …

A number of years ago I wrote a commentary in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience that I believe is even more important today then back when I originally wrote it. The basic argument, which I will go into more detail below, is that — beginning in grounded experimentally validated ‘axioms’ —…

Constructing generalizable models in neuroscience is challenging because neural systems are typically complex in the sense that they are dynamic — constantly changing — and composed of numerous interacting components that collectively participate to produce emergent behaviors: system properties that are not shared by the building block constituent elements that…

Los Angeles based NovaSignal Inc. recently launched a second version of their artificial intelligence (AI)-guided robotic platform for assessing cerebral blood flow in order to guide real-time diagnosis. The platform uses ultrasound to autonomously capture blood flow data, which then gets sent to their HIPAA-compliant cloud system so that clinicians…