Carnegie Mellon University’s Jessica Zhang and Angran Li have developed a new way to model material transport regulation in neurons, focusing on the «traffic jams» that occur in these neural pathways. The traffic jams play a role in diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and Parkinson’s. The team is using a new modeling technology called isogeometric analysis (IGA) to model neurons and these traffic jams more accurately.
Research team models neuron traffic jams in the brain
Carnegie Mellon University's Jessica Zhang and Angran Li have developed a new way to model material transport regulation in neurons, focusing on the "traffic jams" that occur in these neural pathways. The traffic jams play a role in diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's. The team is using a new modeling technology called isogeometric analysis (IGA) to model neurons and these traffic jams more accurately.