The Neuroscape Alliance mission is to foster collaboration, share technology and resources, and refine our collective vision to result in greater global impact.
The Neuroscape Alliance is an affiliation of academic institutions, clinical centers, and research facilities around the world that share a common vision of leveraging new, non-invasive technology to advance translational neuroscience research. We strive to develop novel assessments and interventions with applications to education, wellness and medicine.
With Neuroscape at UCSF acting as a hub, Alliance members receive the following benefits:
Director: Philippe Robert
CoBTeK (Cognition-Behavior-Technology) is a research unit attached to the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. It is supported in part by Innovation A (IA) association.
Director: Philippe Robert
CoBTeK (Cognition-Behavior-Technology) is a research unit attached to the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. It is supported in part by Innovation A (IA) association.
Neuroscape and CoBTeK-IA plan to collaborate on research projects, share knowledge, exchange students, and work together to develop a network of research labs involved in the field of neuroscience, technology and human sciences.
Director: Philippe Ryvlin
NeuroTech is a clinical research organization providing a platform dedicated to the medical, medico-economic, societal and ethical assessment of novel technologies to further improve patient care in clinical neuroscience, including mobile health solutions, immersive reality, exoskeletons and robotics.
Director: Philippe Ryvlin
NeuroTech is a clinical research organization providing a platform dedicated to the medical, medico-economic, societal and ethical assessment of novel technologies to further improve patient care in clinical neuroscience, including mobile health solutions, immersive reality, exoskeletons and robotics.
NeuroTech is the first of its kind in Europe and has been developed by the Department of Clinical Neuroscience (DNC) at the CHUV, the Lausanne University Hospital. NeuroTech promotes clinical neuroscience and neurotechnology research and represents an in-house infrastructure for all the specialties and units of the DNC: i.e. neurology, brain and spinal surgery, the Leenaards Memory Center and neurorehabilitation.
Neuroscape and NeuroTech will collaborate on research projects, share knowledge, exchange students, and work together to develop a network of research labs involved in the field of neuroscience, novel technologies and human sciences. The NeuroTech facilities and infrastructure will help to further promote assessment, evolution and implementation of clinical neuroscience approaches developed within Neuroscape.
The Educational NeuroImaging Center (ENIC) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is focused on determining the neuronal, cognitive, genetic, and environmental components that underlie both the typical and atypical development of the most important components of communication in children: language and reading.
Director: Kim Scurr
Director: Kim Scurr
Ranked as one of the top children’s hospitals in the nation by US News & World Report, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco has more than 150 specialists in more than 40 areas of children’s health. Our Mission Bay Children’s Hospital opened on Febuary 1st 2015 with 183 pediatric beds and is San Francisco’s only designated children’s hospital. Our hospital opened with leading-edge technology, like robotic “TUGs” that deliver meals and medications as well as an advanced clinical communication solution. Patient’s rooms are equipped with an interactive patient engagement system that provides entertainment, education and meal ordering.Children’s Hospital leadership has a commitment to technology that is designed to improve patient care. Being in the heart of Silicon Valley we are ideally situated to leverage high tech companies to meet that commitment.
One of the most exciting and rapidly evolving areas of human-technology interaction concerns the rise of socially assistive and companion robots. The potential to effortlessly interact with physically present robots presents a wealth of challenges and opportunities for enhancing our lives at home, as well as in business, education, and healthcare settings. Understanding how we perceive and interact with others is a core challenge of social cognition research. Work being performed by the Social Robots team as part of the Social Brain in Action laboratory, and supported by the European Research Council, draws upon psychology, cognitive neuroscience and social robotics with the aim to:
To achieve these aims, the team is working to examine how healthy young adults perceive and interact with humans compared to robots, with particular focus on the impact of a robot’s perceived emotions and the quality of social engagement with the robot that participants report. One question we are looking to answer in particular is the extent to which brain regions that have evolved over millennia to mediate social interaction with humans might also be recruited to support social exchanges with artificial agents. Future work will further test the role of experience-dependent plasticity on social cognition by assessing the neurocognitive profiles of young children and older adults when interacting with socially engaging robots. Furthermore, we plan to explore how cultural influences shape social behaviour towards and neurocognitive representations of robots by extending aspects of this research to robotics-savvy individuals in Japan, the world’s most robotics-rich nation.
Executive Director: Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman
Today, declining brain health is the leading concern among adults, moving ahead of cancer and heart disease. Just imagine – The concept of ‘BrainHealth’ was so new in 1999 that we have a trademark on it.
Executive Director: Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman
Today, declining brain health is the leading concern among adults, moving ahead of cancer and heart disease. Just imagine – The concept of ‘BrainHealth’ was so new in 1999 that we have a trademark on it.
The Center for BrainHealth leads scientific research to discover and implement proactive ways to build a stronger, faster, higher performing brain. The BrainHealth Team – comprised of 125+ scientists and research clinicians – is dedicated to empowering people of all ages to unlock their brain potential. We are establishing evidenced-based protocols to:
We measure brain health through 5 domains – neural, cognitive, psychological well-being, independent life function and social cognition.
To overcome our impatience of scientific discoveries taking 15+ years to be converted into practices that benefit human life, the Center for BrainHealth created the Brain Performance Institute in 2013 (Director: Leanne Young, Ph.D.). We are rapidly developing real-time gaming platforms for social cognitive skills training, biometric data collection in virtual reality environments, neurostimulation and much more, to transform and scale our research translational efforts.
Our current efforts in bridging the gap between neuroscience and technology include:
We embrace the Neuroscape Alliance’s opportunities to foster rich collaborations to achieve global progress. Brain health is one of the most fertile and vital fields of scientific exploration and application to improve humanity through our technological advances.
The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health; one of Australia’s largest institutes for mental health, unites over 200 world-class researchers with cutting-edge research infrastructure. This is thanks to the generosity of the late David Winston Turner, who has presented Monash University with Australia’s largest single gift to mental health. Through this gift, we are one step closer to providing ground-breaking research, training and treatment solutions for mental health conditions. We are laying the foundations for a pipeline of discovery in areas of critical importance to human well-being: attention and memory, sleep, and addiction. Through the institutes knowledge-sharing program, we will ensure these findings are disseminated throughout the neuroscience community, and beyond to inform public debate, enrich our culture, and actively involve the public in the discovery process. We are also creating structures, culture and connections to more rapidly turn the knowledge we generate into benefits to the community, such as improving prospects for recovery from drug addiction or head injury, enhancing learning in schools or reducing accidents in the workplace.
Director: Murat Yucel
Director: Murat Yucel
BrainPark is a new, research-driven solution to fast-track knowledge from the brain sciences into the community and help improve brain health of Australians.
BrainPark will utilise the latest knowledge in brain sciences to develop lifestyle and technology-based interventions to help those experiencing substance and behavioural addictions (e.g., alcohol and gambling) and other compulsive conditions (e.g., OCD), or those who are at risk of them. Through BrainPark, the team will develop five integrated interventions chosen for their strong therapeutic potential and accessibility. These are Virtual Reality, Physical exercise, Mindfulness meditation and Yoga, Non-invasive brain stimulation and Cognitive training.
Director: Sri Kurniawan
Director: Sri Kurniawan
Bridging the gap between
neuroscience and technology.
Bridging the gap between neuroscience and technology.
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