Our brains have a ’fingerprint’ too

Dimitri Van De Ville and Enrico Amico © Alain Herzog 2021 EPFL - An EPFL scientist has pinpointed the signs of brain activity that make up our brain fingerprint, which - like our regular fingerprint - is unique. "I think about it every day and dream about it at night. It's been my whole life for five years now," says Enrico Amico, a scientist and SNSF Ambizione Fellow at EPFL's Medical Image Processing Laboratory and the EPFL Center for Neuroprosthetics. He's talking about his research on the human brain in general, and on brain fingerprints in particular. He learned that every one of us has a brain "fingerprint" and that this fingerprint constantly changes in time. His findings have just been 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.