Special Issue on Brain Asymmetry in Evolution

Special issue on simulated evolution and learning

The field of natural computation is one of the fastest growing areas in computer science and engineering. Although its origins can be traced back to the cybernetics movement of the 1950s, it has undergone a renaissance since the mid-1980s, primarily due to the fundamental work by pioneers (for example, John Holland, Ken De Jong, David Goldberg, John Koza, Lawrence Fogel) in the genetic and evol...

Preface SPECIAL ISSUE ON BRAIN NEURO-MECHANICS

In July 2010, the Centre for Mathematical Medicine organized the first interdisciplinary workshop on Brain Neuro-Mechanics, under the patronage of the Fields Institute. The focus of the workshop was on recent discoveries in fundamental brain science that could play an important role in improved medical diagnoses, treatment strategies and clinical protocols. The workshop brought together experts...

Special issue on alcohol and brain damage.

When the brain is damaged by alcohol, whether in early development or in later life, the distress caused is often prolonged because the damage may be permanent or very slow to recover, but the condition is not fatal as with some other complications of excessive consumption of alcohol. The finding in an Irish acute general hospital, that 25% of ‘delayed discharge’ was accounted for by patients w...

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Editorial for the Special Issue on Uncertainty in the Brain

Received: 17 January 2014 / Accepted: 14 March 2014 / Published online: 17 April 2014 © 2014 O. Faugeras, M. Thieullen; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is p...