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The first Brainpolyphony concert
Last December the 10th in Barcelona we were happy to present the first Brainpolyphony Orchestra Concert. Brainpolyphony is a project born thanks to the collaboration of CRG, University of Barcelona...
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Watch your brain at TalkingBrains!
We all think, we all talk, we all communicate and navigate this world but we barely take some time to watch and observe the signals that come out of our own brain. This time, Starlab® and...
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Starlab joins the RIS3CAT|NextHealth community though the Innobrain project
Science is advancing in Catalunya, which is reflected through the creation of RIS3CAT communities. These communities arise from a new EU-funding program (ERDF), a fund that aims to develop R&D...
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Brain, consciousness and complexity.
Various processes in natural sciences, such as the geometric shape of shores, rocks, plants, waves, organism trajectories, atmospheric flows and other phenomena that seem to present a higher level of...
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Disentangling the puzzle of ADHD
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by problems in paying attention[1] (the incapacity of attending with a necessary degree of constancy to...
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Heart beat monitoring – what can we learn?
Heart monitoring is becoming increasingly popular with the availability of health monitoring wristbands. Most of these units have built-in microprocessors that analyze the recorded signals (*1) to...
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How can we apply AI, Machine Learning or Deep Learning to EEG?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been part of our imaginations and simmering in research labs since a group of computer scientists rallied around this topic at the Dartmouth Conference in 1956. They...
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Monitoring effects of Transcranial Current Stimulation with EEG, fMRI, MEG,...
Transcranial current stimulation (tCS) seems to be a powerful tool to make the link between brain function and disease. This has been demonstrated in current research. However, we have yet to fully...
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Clustering Methods in Exploratory Analysis
Clustering methods are in charge of grouping sets of data objects with the aim of finding relationships within the objects that compose the data. Such a process allows the data scientist to find...
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Practical BCI Application: the feasibility of asynchronous EEG/EOG BCIs for...
Have you ever imagined how many sensors, signal processing and subtasks it takes for the body to process and execute a success command? The recent paper by Crea et al (Scientific Reports 2018)...
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The importance of modeling in tCS
Let’s face it: frogs are not the most glamorous of animals…However, we owe a great deal to them! In 1780, Luigi Galvani found out that muscles of frog’s legs would twitch if in contact with electrical...
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Out of body experiences – neural engineering informs brain sciences
Someone knew someone who almost died. And when that happened, this person was able to see their own body, from above, lying in that bed. Inert. This, a classical out-of-body experience (Figure 1A),...
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Algorithmic complexity of EEG for neurodegenerative disease progression
As we have already discussed in a previous blog on Brain Consciousness and Complexity, algorithmic complexity is an intrinsic property of the brain dynamics, and be estimated through the...
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Autism spectrum disorder: insights on what is happening in the brain
More than 1% people are autistic. People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) mainly present problems in social communication and interaction, and restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour,...
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You can do better than following guidelines: improving focus and consistency...
It’s a dire truth that most drugs people are prescribed will fail to help them. Take the US top-selling medicament for high-cholesterol (Rosuvastatin), or the one routinely used to treat asthma...
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EEG IN THE AIR
EEG is in the Air “I’m looking up because that is where I want to be” Anonymous … most likely an aviator. Brain imaging techniques are usually cumbersome and require to be used in controlled lab...
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Enobio reads emotions through the EEG of sports enthusiast with ALS
Some years ago, the world was frozen with the “ice bucket challenge”. Liters of water and ice were dumped over thousands of people’s head to promote awareness and raise funds for the investigation of...
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Where Art meets Science: A collaboration with La Fura Dels Baus
There is a long history of art and science looking for each other. As Leonardo da Vinci said: “to develop a complete mind, study the science of art, study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize...
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tDCS at home with Starstim
One of the emerging trends in the field of tDCS for medical applications is telemedicine or home use. The main reasons for the field’s growth are that we know this to be a safe technique, with only...
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A promising ADHD biomarker – Enobio
EEG can be used to investigate abnormal brain activity in neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer or Authism. EEG biomarkers are capable of detecting atypical neural patterns that can be...
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