Projects

Brain and consciousness development

Preliminary data suggests that in spite of the apparent multi-specific nature of cortex and brain development including numerous events of neuron growth, synapses establishment, connections increase, neurons elimination, etc., there exists gene-dependent and pre-programmed determinants that govern that general cortex development. This raises a possibility that one can elucidate the general mechanisms of gene regulation leading to cortex development and eventually to the brain-mine transition.

The overall approach contains a combination of 'wet laboratory' morphological studies of brain development, which is conducted by Prof. Jean Pierre Changeux in Paris, and non-extensive entropy studies of the parameters extracted from the morphological and gene-network studies of brain system and computational analysis of existing gene expression data for brain development which are conducted by Dr. Igor F. Tsigelny and Dr. Baitaluk from UCSD.

The general analysis of a combination of the brain morphology data and gene networks data are conducted by Jean-Pierre Changeux, Igor F. Tsigelny and M. Baitaluk.