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I have captured this series of photographs for La Vanguardia Photos' Readers' Photos, in which we see a creative interpretation of the brain.
I have captured in the images of reflections the idea of fingerprints from an autumn leaf and the color magenta with some branches as an interpretation of the brain.
And, according to scientists, our brain has a kind of fingerprint that also changes over time, like leaves depending on their season.
This is how these photographs want to convey the hidden and fascinating beauty of our brain, like a dynamic dance in continuous transformation.
The study When makes you unique: Temporality of the human brain fingerprint, developed at the Medical Image Processing Laboratory of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (Switzerland) and published in the specialized journal Science Advances, found that the human brain has a unique "fingerprint" for each individual.
This fact has potential applications that could lead to the early detection of neurological conditions in which brain traces disappear. For example, it can be used in patients affected by autism or stroke, and even in subjects with drug addictions.
This technique uses MRI scanners, which measure brain activity over a period of time. Researchers process the scans to generate graphs (called "functional brain connectomes"), represented as colored matrices and summarizing the person's brain activity.
This type of modeling technique is known as network neuroscience or brain connectomics. And ultimately it provides a kind of map of the neural network. A few years ago, neuroscientists at Yale University studying these connectomes found that we have a unique brain fingerprint and that an individual could be accurately identified based on their brain fingerprint.
"The extraction of fingerprints from human brain connectivity data has become a new frontier in neuroscience," the study states. In short, it is a fascinating journey into the depths of our being.
