Icnde

How do thought, perception, and creativity emerge from the collective activity of the astronomical number of unreliable neurons that make up the human brain?  What role does this noise and collective neuronal activity play in neurological diseases?The Initiative for Collective Neuronal Dynamics and Epilepsy (ICNDE) is a scientific research organization founded to answer these fundamental questions and explore the nature of spatiotemporal patterns of neuronal activity in the brain. These patterns or collective excitations are ubiquitous in nature, occurring in noisy systems from semiconductors to ant colonies. In the brain, this coherent activity not only likely underlies cognitive processes and consciousness, but also is essential to our understanding of diseases of cognition and epilepsy. By engaging in this research, ICNDE hopes to make a significant impact in our understanding of the brain, and make its scientific endeavors intelligible to large numbers of people. To promote this effort:- ICNDE will hold public lectures to educate people in the basic and clinical neurosciences as well as the nature of ongoing research at ICNDE.- Individuals may make contributions to ICNDE in any amount, and may specify how their contribution is to be allocated.- ICNDE will not have a payroll. All employees and officers will be non-salaried.- 100 % of all contributions will go to direct research costs including equipment and supplies, and will not cover overhead or indirect costs unless specified by the contributor.- Overhead will be minimized and any remaining operating costs for ICNDE will be paid for by grants, partnering academic institutions, or donated by the founder.- All of ICNDE's financial statements, tax returns, and transactions will be made available on the organization's website www.brainclouds.org.