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assignment_turned_in Project2022 - 2025Partners:BIDMCBIDMCFunder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 2220273Funder Contribution: 800,000 USDmore_vert assignment_turned_in Project2009 - 2013Partners:BIDMCBIDMCFunder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 0922876more_vert assignment_turned_in Project2009 - 2011Partners:BIDMCBIDMCFunder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 0943180more_vert assignment_turned_in Project2022 - 2024Partners:BIDMCBIDMCFunder: National Science Foundation Project Code: 2313481Funder Contribution: 200,000 USDmore_vert Open Access Mandate for Publications and Research data assignment_turned_in Project2021 - 2025Partners:UPF, IRCCS, NEUROELECTRICS, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Uppsala University +4 partnersUPF,IRCCS,NEUROELECTRICS,Fondazione Santa Lucia,Uppsala University,HCA,UPO,BIDMC,IFADOFunder: European Commission Project Code: 101017716Overall Budget: 4,485,740 EURFunder Contribution: 4,485,740 EURNeuropsychiatric disorders are a leading cause of global disability-adjusted life years, and solutions are lacking. Can digital twins be useful? At least in some cases, we hold they will be central to progress. Recent findings suggest that non-invasive brain stimulation may be a valuable option in conditions such as epilepsy or Alzheimer's (AD). Still, a better understanding of mechanisms and patient-specific factors is needed. Personalized hybrid brain models uniting the physics of electromagnetism with physiology – neurotwins or NeTs – are poised to play a fundamental role in understanding and optimizing the effects of stimulation at the individual level. We ambition to deliver disruptive solutions through model-driven, individualized therapy. We will build a computational framework – weaved and validated across scales and levels of detail– to represent the mechanisms of interaction of electric fields with brain networks and assimilate neuroimaging data. This will allow us to characterize the dynamical landscape of the individual brain and define strategies to restore healthy dynamics. Benefitting from existing databases of healthy and AD individuals, we will deliver the first human and rodent NeTs predicting the effects of stimulation on dynamics. We will then collect detailed multimodal measurements in mice and humans to improve the predictive power of local and whole-brain models under the effects of electrical stimulation, and translate these findings into a technology pipeline for the design of new personalized neuromodulation protocols which we will test in a cohort of AD patients and healthy controls in randomized double-blinded studies. With research at the intersecting frontier of nonlinear dynamics, network theory, biophysics, engineering, neuroscience, clinical research, and ethics, Neurotwin will deliver model-driven breakthroughs in basic and clinical neuroscience, with patients ultimately benefiting from safe, individualized therapy solutions.
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