Crazy Life, Crazy Brain (5)

We are living in crazy times. COVID-19 has impacted our daily lives and we are all stuck inside and breathing through masks. The "I can't breathe" slogan from George Floyd speaks to another virus of racism. Our brains have to process all this craziness, but our brains are amazing. I hope we all will work together to clear the air of viruses and be able to breathe once again.

-- Vince Calhoun submitted on behalf of Anaiah Calhoun, 12 yo

The V Tree (7)

Cotton rope on canvas

-- Matthew Budde, Medical College of Wisconsin

Mosaic Brain (9)

Psychiatric disorders show substantial comorbidity between diagnoses and marked heterogeneity within diagnoses, which contributes to the apparent nonspecificity of neural mechanisms associated with psychopathology. This art depicts mosaic tiles of disparate colors and shapes progressively merging into a highly stylized rendering of functional connectivity map in the brain (from the Human Connectome Project). It highlights the tension between heterogeneity of symptoms and convergence of neural mechanisms underlying psychopathology.

-- Cedric Huchuan Xia, University of Pennsylvania

BrainGirafe (10)

-- Jean-Francois Mangin, Neurospin

BrainPebble (12)

-- Jean-Francois Mangin, Neurospin

BrainDream (14)

-- Jean-Francois Mangin, Neurospin

The mind's butterfly (16)

an éclaté of sub-cortical structures 

-- Pilou Bazin, Universiteit van Amsterdam

The Golden Arbor (6)

Pyramidal neurons form the majority of neurons in the mammalian cortex. They were first characterized by Santiago Ramon y Cajal in the 19th century. Acrylic paint on canvas

-- Lizbeth Ayoub, University of Toronto

Wired (8)

Reconstruction of whole-brain white matter from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data in preparation for structural connectome analyses

-- Lena Oestreich, The Unversity of Queensland

Agony of psychosis (11)

This is a collaborative work of an illustrative artist (Rebecca Ra) and a neuroscientist (Peter Kochunov) to symbolize the the brain-gut dysregulation in severe mental illness. A person’s gut is shown as the trunk of the camphor oil tree and the head wears the crow of camphor oil leafs. Consumption of camphor oil leafs causes psychosis and hallucinations in humans. Here, it is symbolic for neuroinflamation that originates in the gut due to dysregulation of brain-gut axis in severe mental illness such as schizophrenia. The brain is shown in flames as the symbolism for positive symptoms including delusions and hallucination. The base is shown frozen to symbolize the negative symptoms such as anhedonia and lack of energy. 

-- Peter Kochunov, University of Maryland

WoollyBrain (13)

-- Jean-Francois Mangin, Neurospin

BrainEyes (15)

-- Jean-Francois Mangin, Neurospin

Order in the Chaos (17)

-- Mitzi Gabriela Márquez, Artista Indepediente

Big BigBrain explosions (19)

Güell Salaminder (23)

The Deep Learning Team at QMENTA produced amazing images by combining the beauty of human brain MRI anatomy with patterns inspired by our favorite artists. In this piece, we honor our home of Barcelona and its artistic Icon Gaudi. Fitting, as nature was always his inspiration.

-- Irina sanchez, Santi Puch & Salvis Are, QMENTA

Starry Cortex (25)

The Deep Learning Team at QMENTA produced amazing images by combining the beauty of human brain MRI anatomy with patterns inspired by our favorite artists. In this piece, we Van Goh's iconic stokes merge seamlessly, with gyral patterns.

-- Irina sanchez, Santi Puch & Salvis Are, QMENTA

I forgot my umbrella (27)

The Deep Learning Team at QMENTA produced amazing images by combining the beauty of human brain MRI anatomy with patterns inspired by our favorite artists. In this piece, Afremovs particular style goes full sagittal.

-- Irina sanchez, Santi Puch & Salvis Are, QMENTA

The fragmented brain (29)

The fragmented brain: an illustration depicting the damaging side effects of radiation therapy (red = high dose,  purple = low dose) on the structural integrity of the brain.

-- Szabolcs David, UMC Utrecht

Expressive Predictionism (31)

-- Rachel Nirmala Pläschke, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Empathetic person (33)

TECHNIQUE: Multicolor woolen yarn pressed into bee wax and wooden board.  FORMAT: 60 x 90 cm. YEAR: 2019 DECRIPTION: Neurosciences attempt to explain how brain function enables consciousness and empathy. However, they do not provide a concept of "person" that favors an integrative interpretation of their findings. “Empathic Person” uses the artistic expression to show a neuroscientific allegory of the human person according to the scholastic philosopher John Duns Scotus (1266-1308). The work emulates an artisanal technique used by the Huichol shamans and visionaries that inhabit northern Mexico in order to show that the role of scientists might not differ too much from that visionaries. They are the scientists who, after an arduous endeavor of research and reflection, configure the different aspects that constitute the reality of the world in which humans inhabit...

-- Roberto Emmanuele Mercadillo Caballero, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa

Lenticulostriate arteries and subcortical structures (35)

3D rendering of lenticulostriate arteries (LSAs) segmented from T1w turbo-spin echo with variable flip angle (TSE-VFA) images at 7T, each color represents a LSA branch. LSAs are overlain on putamen (purple), caudate (yellow), globus pallidus (blue) and thalamus (orange), as well as minimum intensity projection (minIP) of TSE-VFA images.

--Jim Stanis, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of Southern California

Piecing the Brain Together (37)

Tiny pieces of mind (24)

The Deep Learning Team at QMENTA produced amazing images by combining the beauty of human brain MRI anatomy with patterns inspired by our favorite artists. In this piece, we honor our home of Barcelona and its artistic Icon Gaudi. Fitting, as nature was always his inspiration.

-- Irina sanchez, Santi Puch & Salvis Are, QMENTA

Cerebral Litograph (26)

The Deep Learning Team at QMENTA produced amazing images by combining the beauty of human brain MRI anatomy with patterns inspired by our favorite artists. In this piece, the Escher brings the right balance of order within the chaos (or is it the other way around?) that characterizes our favorite organ.

-- Irina sanchez, Santi Puch & Salvis Are, QMENTA

There's a Riot Going On (28)

8"x10" hand embroidered and painted depiction of the riot of thought processes and interplay of neurons in the brain always going, not always under control. 

-- Laura Bundesen, Mount Holyoke College

As above, so below (30) 

-- Teodora Stoica, University of Louisville

Failed Hippocreatures (32)

Hippocreatures are prone to wandering away from their home planet and into brain imaging studies. Visual quality control of imaging analyses is crucial in identifying stray Hippocreatures and returning them to their natural habitat.

-- Artemis Zavaliangos-Petropulu, University of Southern California

What is compassion? It is an experience… an inner one (34)

TECHNIQUE: Multicolor threads pressed into bee wax and wooden board.  FORMAT: 20 x 30 cm. YEAR: 2014 DECRIPTION: The work portrays a Buddhist monk of Tibetan tradition in a state of compassion meditation. This meditation assumes a state of attentive introspection and expansion of feelings of unconditional well-being towards all sentient beings, consciously and intentionally generated from inner experiences, unique and inaccessible to others. Although inaccessible, the outer background, what we observe outside the monk's internal world, shows his experience through a tapestry of dual neurons that activate the excitatory and inhibitory processes that characterize the flow of consciousness in the human nervous system...

-- Roberto Emmanuele Mercadillo Caballero, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa

3D-printed Earrings inspired by Neurodiversity (36)

Social stigma, more firing (38)

The art here depict socializing based anxiety and the brain activity(anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala).

--Ritu M Borah, National Brain Research Centre, India

Cortical alignment failure in nostalgic console green (40)

Image depicts registration failure between 2 surfaces of the upper left hemisphere of the human brain, illustrated with Blender.

--Anastasia Brovkin, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf

Valley of the shattered hollow cortex (42)

Failed Topology Simplification on HCP Cortical Surface in Blender.

--Anastasia Brovkin, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf

Unity in diversity (44)

Ramony Magritte (39)

--Antonia Machlouzarides-Shalit, Inria, Universite Paris-Saclay

The hollow cavern of the shattered cortex (41)

Inside of a left hemisphere mesh, prior to topological optimisation, visualised in Blender and retouched in GIMP for constant and colorcurve.

--Anastasia Brovkin, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf

I see you (43)

Correlates of mean BOLD signal from eye orbits

--Cemal Koba, IMT School of Advanced Studies Lucca

Too Pretty to be True (45)

Thought Forms (46)

gel and metallic pens, 25 x 25cms, 2020

--Richard Bright

Thought Forms (emanating) (48)

Neural Communication No.16 (47)

gel and metallic pens, 25 x 25cms, 2019

--Richard Bright

Neural Communication No.25 (49)

How do you know me? (50)

--Yi-Ju Lee, Academia Sinica

Memory of Color (52)

Warholesque (51)

--Linda, Alzheimer/PCA sufferer

Squiggly Brain (53)

Extasis (57)

-- Pedro Galusso

Threading Emotions Weaving Reality (60)

Threading Emotions Weaving Reality 

Holly Warren

Perivascular spaces (62)

Perivascular spaces (PVS), also known as Virchow-Robin spaces, are fluid-filled structures that accompany vessels entering (penetrating arteries) or leaving (draining veins) the cerebral cortex. Mapping PVS has significant clinical value because it plays a key role in the circulation of the cerebrospinal fluid and also clearance of metabolic waste out of the brain. We have built an automated computer-aided technique to accurately map PVS using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which was informed by radiology experts for optimization. The video shows 3D rendering of PVS volume across the brain, which can be used to categorize PVS based on their morphology. 

-- Jim Stanis, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of Southern California

Harmonic Dissonance: an immersive brain art installation exploring human connectedness (64)

Harmonic Dissonance is an immersive art/neuroscience experience exploring the friction between social interdependence and individual agency through Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) art using EEG. By navigating an audio-visual landscape reflecting the extent to which their inter-brain connectivity, groups of people co-create an ever-evolving, fluid social network composed by this brain-based ‘group cohesion’. 

-- Suzanne Dikker, New York University

BigBrain Slice 25 (66)

8ft x 6ft wood, volcanic rock, moonstone, smokey quartz and steel

-- Celesti Kozub, McGill University Montreal Neurological Hospital Institute

A Musical Introduction to Mitochondrial Function at Synapses (67)

Clear sight (58)

Light-Sheet image of a cleared mouse brain immunohistochemically stained for Neuronal cell bodies and Cell nuclei

-- Philip Ruthig, MPI CBS, Uni Leipzig

Memories Lost (59)

The brain is the human archive. A wonderful mechanism that selects, catalogues, stores and retrieves experiences as memories. When needed memories are moved, shifted and placed were needed. At times they can jump a line, be overshadowed or blocked ...then there is darkness.

Holly Warren

Piece of Mind - Parkinson's Disease Research in Motion (61)

Piece of Mind - Parkinson's Disease Research in Motion

Naila Kuhlmann (Piece of Mind Collective), McGill University 

THC Exposure is Reflected in the Microstructure of the Cerebral Cortex and Amygdala of Young Adults (63)

The endocannabinoid system serves a critical role in homeostatic regulation through its influence on processes underlying appetite, pain, reward, and stress, and cannabis has long been used for the related modulatory effects it provides through tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). We investigated how THC exposure relates to tissue microstructure of the cerebral cortex and subcortical nuclei using computational modeling of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data in a large cohort of young adults from the Human Connectome Project.  

-- Jim Stanis, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of Southern California

Using NIRS to shine light on the brain (65)

-- Laura Bell, Jana A. Kruppa, Vanessa Reindl, Alexandra Niephaus, Simon H. Kohl, Kerstin Konrad, Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany; JARA-Brain Institute II, Molecular Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, RWTH Aachen & Research Centre Juelich

The Developing Brain (68)

Blooming Brain (69)

Thoughts (69)

--Yi-Ju Lee, Academia Sinica

Who am I? (69)

Journey of A Neurotransmitter (70)

Brain synergy (71)

This animation was created from a Limaçon curve subjected to an optical self-imaging computational simulation, based on the Fast Fourier Transform. 

--Jorge A. Salas, Vanderbilt University

Active Memory (72)