The study successfully created artificial cerebellum

Recently, Tel Aviv University (Israel) scientists have succeeded in creating artificial cerebellum to replace the cerebellar region that has been disabled in white mice to restore brain function.

Two years ago, Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project in Switzerland, also predicted the successful research and development of the first artificial brain for humans in the near future.

The Israeli researchers said that the cerebellum is a part of the brain below the brain, next to the brain stem. It plays a big role in body control, mixed movements and complex reflexes. The cerebellum has a simple neural structure, so urinary regeneration is not too complicated compared to other areas of the brain.

Biomedical professor Matti Mintz, head of the research team analyzed the sensory input signals and output feedback from the brain stem to the cerebellum of a white mouse through an electronic chip placed outside the box. skull.

Next, the lab rat was anesthetized and the chip was placed on the head. Scientists create conditioned reflexes for anesthesia rats. Specifically, they set the device to make sounds with the same time the wind flow, when the sound came out, the wind blew into the face of the mouse, causing it to close its eyes. Gradually, just hearing the mouse sound will automatically close your eyes.

The reflections on the mouse learn through the chip attached to the brain. Without this chip, the disabled cerebellum of the mouse could not learn the conditioned reflex. This shows that scientists have succeeded in reproducing the activity of the cerebellum.

Not only stop at the cerebellum, scientists also want to expand the scope of regeneration in larger areas. Success in mice is the first step for scientists to determine how it works and improve brain function in stroke victims or brain damage from physical contact.

Scientists believe that, in the next few decades, there will be an artificial part to replace other parts of the brain (other than the cerebellum) as visual cortex or hippocapus .