As I swoop down through the mouse’s cerebrum, a bright buzz of red, excitatory neurons gives way to a deep core of blue inhibitory signaling, which rises up to a powerful cyan as I navigate towards ...

For years, Henry Markram has claimed that he can simulate the human brain in a computer within a decade. On 23 January 2013, the European Commission told him to prove it. His ambitious Human Brain ...

Building a vast digital simulation of the brain could transform neuroscience and medicine and reveal new ways of making more powerful computers Reductionist biology—examining individual brain parts, ...