Back to Basics: Limitations of Research Influencing the Human Brain Project

• Published in: Journal of computer science and systems biology Vol. 8; no. 6; p. 322
• Main Author: GW, Ewing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biology; Brain; Computer simulation; Direct reduction; Human; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Organs
• ISSN: 0974-7230; 0974-7230
• DOI: 10.4172/jcsb.1000206

In an effort to unravel the workings of the human brain the European Commission established the Human Brain Project however it has been subject to intense rescrutiny, criticism and political infighting. Accordingly the aim of this article is to provide a critical review of whether, at least from the technical perspective, such criticisms are justified. The author is in the privileged position of being able to do so because he heads a company which is in the unique position of commercialising a technology, developed by its Technical Director Dr. Igor Grakov, which is based upon a precise, sophisticated, and detailed mathematical model of the autonomic nervous system i.e. that cognitive input can be used as the data sets for a neural simulation technique and/or mathematical model which links brain function to the regulated function of the body's physiological and/or functional systems, the organs which are essential components of these systems, and of the pathological changes to cellular and molecular biology which are the consequence of systemic dysfunction.