Brain Network Recovery Group

Building a virtual brain

In a chilly room that once housed patients at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute in Toronto, Randy McIntosh and his colleagues are trying to build a virtual brain:

Brain noise is a good thing

Public Library of Science - Computational Biology

Scientists Identify the Brain’s Activity Hub

The New York Times

Baycrest leads international collaboration to study the brain's ability to recover from damage or disease

Toronto, ONT - Eight research institutes from around the world have joined forces with Toronto's Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in a multi-million dollar endeavour to study the remarkable, but little understood, ability of brain networks to rewire after damage caused by stroke, Alzheimer's Disease, and other dementias.

The Human Connectome

A workshop sponsored by the James S. McDonnell Foundation and leading up to this collaborative project grant helped to develop ideas on how to achieve a structural description of human brain connectivity. The resulting concept has just been published in PLoS Computational Biology for open access. The full text can be read here.