{"id":209921,"date":"2025-03-28T01:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/neuroscientists-unveil-digital-translator-for-brain-studies"},"modified":"2025-03-28T01:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T06:27:20","slug":"neuroscientists-unveil-digital-translator-for-brain-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/neuroscientists-unveil-digital-translator-for-brain-studies","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists unveil digital \u2018translator\u2019 for brain studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientists-unveil-digital-translator-for-brain-studies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UCLA Health researchers have helped to develop a new digital toolbox to create a \u201ccommon language\u201d for brain network studies, potentially accelerating new discoveries and treatments for neurological and psychiatric conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In a study recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-58176-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, the authors say the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rubykong\/cbig_network_correspondence\" target=\"_blank\">open-source software<\/a> will help researchers worldwide overcome a longstanding hurdle in brain imaging research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as people have been interested in studying the brain, they have tried to map it out by answering a basic question: how many brain regions are there?\u201d said study senior author Lucina Uddin, a UCLA Health Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Professor and Director of the UCLA Brain Connectivity and Cognition Laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA Health researchers have helped to develop a new digital toolbox to create a \u201ccommon language\u201d for brain network studies, potentially accelerating new discoveries and treatments for neurological and psychiatric conditions. In a study recently published in the journal Nature Communications, the authors say the open-source software will help researchers worldwide overcome a longstanding hurdle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}