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A love letter to the human brain mapping community.

As Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Council, Sylvain shares his vision for fostering a thriving neuroimaging community. He emphasizes addressing challenges like economic disparities, environmental sustainability, and expanding the scope of brain mapping while encouraging global engagement of all members of the Organization.

sylvain baillet 9/5/23 sylvain baillet 9/5/23

Sylvain elected as Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

Sylvain has been elected Chair of the Organization, which purpose is to advance the understanding of the anatomical and functional organization of the human brain, and to promote the medical and societal applications of brain imaging methods.

OHBM is the largest scholarly Society of the field, with several international Chapters, Special Interest Groups and an annual meeting gathering 3,000 attendees.

sylvain baillet 8/31/23 sylvain baillet 8/31/23

A point about AI-health research at McGill.

As Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Sylvain gave a short interview about current AI & health research efforts at McGill University to the Temerty Centre for AI Research & Education in Medicine.

sylvain baillet 8/16/23 sylvain baillet 8/16/23

Another brick in brain decoding.

Sylvain was interviewed by the magazine Science about a new study published in PLoS Biology reporting the decoding of music from the electrophysiological activity of the brain of participants.

sylvain baillet 7/1/23 sylvain baillet 7/1/23

An adversarial collaboration to accelerate research on the neural bases of consciousness.

We participate in a major international adversarial collaboration to identify the neural bases of consciousness. The New York Times reports today on our first published study and the state of affairs.

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The road to Kiev

When memories try to bend the arrow of history.

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The road to Francisco

Francisco Varela, brilliant intellectual, neuroscientist and free spirit, passed away 20 years ago today. Our roads crossed for a little while. Here is a short, personal account of these memories, dating back from the 17th century.