{"id":211038,"date":"2025-04-10T02:22:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ai-models-of-the-brain-could-serve-as-digital-twins-in-research"},"modified":"2025-04-10T02:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:22:27","slug":"ai-models-of-the-brain-could-serve-as-digital-twins-in-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ai-models-of-the-brain-could-serve-as-digital-twins-in-research","title":{"rendered":"AI models of the brain could serve as \u2018digital twins\u2019 in research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-models-of-the-brain-could-serve-as-digital-twins-in-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much as a pilot might practice maneuvers in a flight simulator, scientists might soon be able to perform experiments on a realistic simulation of the mouse brain. In a new study, Stanford Medicine researchers and collaborators used an artificial intelligence model to build a \u201cdigital twin\u201d of the part of the mouse brain that processes visual information.<\/p>\n<p>The digital twin was trained on large datasets of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> activity collected from the visual cortex of real mice as they watched movie clips. It could then predict the response of tens of thousands of neurons to new videos and images.<\/p>\n<p>Digital twins could make studying the inner workings of the brain easier and more efficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much as a pilot might practice maneuvers in a flight simulator, scientists might soon be able to perform experiments on a realistic simulation of the mouse brain. In a new study, Stanford Medicine researchers and collaborators used an artificial intelligence model to build a \u201cdigital twin\u201d of the part of the mouse brain that processes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211038","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=211038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}