The project will use supercomputer-based models and simulations to reconstruct a virtual human brain to develop new treatments for neurological conditions.

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Pushing beyond hand-waving and podium speculations, their activities can produce actual things: prototypes, models, patents, and computer simulations.

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Dr Mainzer expects that calculations, simulations and models based on this data "will keep people busy for decades".

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Uncertainties, however, plague such forecasts, which are based on computer simulations and models.

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That is, the assessments must be grounded on existing nuclear test data, nonnuclear tests, fundamental science experiments, and simulations using validated computer models.

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