Tag Archives: theoretical neuroscience

Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2022)

How does the brain work and how can we understand it? To view this big question from a broad perspective at the end of each year, I’m reporting some of the thoughts about the brain that marked me most during … Continue reading

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Ambizione fellowship and an open PhD position

I’m glad to share that I am going to start my own junior research group at the University of Zurich in March 2023! As an Ambizione fellow, I will receive funding for my own salary, some equipment, consumables and a … Continue reading

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Post-publication review: The geometry of robustness in spiking neural networks

Selected paper: Calaim, Dehmelt, Gonçalves and Machens, The geometry of robustness in spiking neural networks, eLife (2022) The main message: This theoretical neuroscience paper describes an intuitive way how to think about the effect of single spikes in a network … Continue reading

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Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2021)

How does the brain work and how can we understand it? I want to make it a habit to report some of the thoughts about the brain that marked me most during the past twelve month at the end of … Continue reading

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Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2019)

How does the brain work and how can we understand it? I want to make it a habit to report some of the thoughts about the brain that marked me most during the past twelve month at the end of … Continue reading

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Post-publication review: Somato-dendritic coupling of L5 neurons in V1

It requires more than a quick look at the abstract and the figures to fully understand a research paper and its limitations. One way to get there is to write a summary or critical review of a paper. In a contribution to … Continue reading

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Post-publication review: “Precise excitation-inhibition balance controls gain and timing in the hippocampus”

It requires more than a quick look at the abstract and the figures to fully understand a research paper and its limitations. One way to go there is to write a summary or critical review of a paper. In a contribution to … Continue reading

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Annual report of my intuition about the brain

There are not many incentives for young neuroscientists to think aloud about big questions. Due to lack both of knowledge and authority, discussing very broad questions like how the brain works risks to be embarrassing at best. Still, I feel … Continue reading

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Precise synaptic balance of excitation and inhibition

The main paper of my PhD just got published: Rupprecht and Friedrich, Precise Synaptic Balance in the Zebrafish Homolog of Olfactory Cortex, Neuron (2018). (PDF) You might like it if you are also interested in Classical balanced networks Things you … Continue reading

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Entanglement of temporal and spatial scales in the brain, but not in the mind

In physics, many problems can be solved by a separation of scales and thereby become tractable. For example, let’s have a look at surface waves on water: they are rather easy to understand when the water wave-length is much larger … Continue reading

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