Buzsaki

Buzsaki Lab reunion, NYU, October 25, 2019 First row Mihaly Voroslakos, Kamran Diba, Xiao-Jing Wang, Gyorgy Buzsaki, Azahara Oliva, Anna Conti, Farnaz Sharif, Ekin Kaya, Veronika Solt. Second (intermittent) row Xiaoyang Long (guest), Kenji Mizuseki, Anton Sirota, Manuel Valero, Karim Benchenane, Shengjia Zhang (guest), Andrea Cumpelik, Yiyao Zhang, Laura Green, Jolin Chou, Stephanie Rogers, Rachel Swanson, Maria Asplund (visitor), Derek Buhl, Dirk Isbrandt, Viktor Varga. Third row David Sullivan, David Tingley, Andres [...]

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In rise of brain implants, blurring lines between man, machine? It sounds far-fetched: With a computer chip implanted in their brains, humans could boost their intelligence with instant access to the internet, write articles like this one by thinking it rather than typing, and communicate with each other without saying a thing ​– what entrepreneur Elon Musk calls “consensual telepathy.” Of course, it’s not really telepathy. It’s radio waves transmitting data from one [...]

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Gyuri hosted his traditional farewell party this weekend, this time for Viktor Varga. Viktor will return to his lab in Hungary.

The Brain from Inside Out Buzsáki, G. The Brain from Inside Out. Oxford University Press (May 2019) [Amazon] Is there a right way to study how the brain works? Following the empiricist’s tradition, the most common approach involves the study of neural reactions to stimuli presented by an experimenter. This ‘outside-in’ method fueled a generation of brain research and now must confront hidden assumptions about causation and concepts that may not hold neatly [...]

Series Combats Disorders: First Up, Epilepsy People with epilepsy were once thought to be possessed by demons or evil spirits. Dubbed “the sacred disease,” epilepsy was profoundly misunderstood for centuries, even after the disorder was explained to be of human origin. So why is it, so many years later, that epilepsy is still not fully understood? And why is there still so much stigma attached to a disorder which affects [...]