Scientists have pinpointed the signs of brain activity that make up our brain fingerprint, which -- like our regular fingerprint -- is unique.
While talking about his research on brain "fingerprint", Enrico Amico says, "I think about it every day and dream about it at night. It's been my whole life for five years now."
Enrico Amico is a scientist and SNSF Ambizione Fellow at EPFL's Medical Image Processing Laboratory and the EPFL Center for Neuroprosthetics. His findings about brain "fingerprint" got published in Science Advances.
"My research examines networks and connections within the brain, and especially the links between the different areas, in order to gain greater insight into how things work," says Amico.
"We do this largely using MRI scans, which measure brain activity over a given time period."
His research team analyses the scans and generates several graphs and matrices to summarise or demonstrate a subject's brain activity. This type of modeling tec...