Neuroplastic playground
30 April 2010
In 2009, Dr Ioannis Spyridon Gousias (Medicine) won the Medical Research Council’s NOBELini Award, for his concept of a new-age interactive playground called ‘ALBERT in NeuroPlastic Land’ inspired by ALBERT (A Label-Based Encephalic ROIs Template) – a powerful magnetic resonance imaging tool for monitoring brain plasticity and brain development in neonates and young children.
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