diff --git a/packages/py-elephant/package.py b/packages/py-elephant/package.py
index fce120077bf513eff4fe5c23dcc6af7770b5eb56..7a6bb1ca86e31cd20322bec7c7e86a9ee28f8964 100644
--- a/packages/py-elephant/package.py
+++ b/packages/py-elephant/package.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from spack.package import *
 
 
-class PyElephant(PythonPackage):
+class PyElephant(PythonPackage, CudaPackage):
     """Elephant is a package for analysis of electrophysiology data in Python"""
 
     homepage = "http://neuralensemble.org/elephant/"
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ class PyElephant(PythonPackage):
     depends_on("py-scipy@1.5.4:", type=("build", "run"), when="@0.6.4:")
     depends_on("py-six@1.10.0:", type=("build", "run"), when="@0.6.4:")
     depends_on("py-tqdm", type=("build", "run"), when="@0.6.4:")
+    depends_on("py-pycuda", type=("build", "run"), when="@0.10.0:+cuda")
     depends_on("py-pytest", type=("test"), when="@0.6.4:")
     depends_on("py-statsmodels@0.12.1:", type=("test"),when="@0.6.4:")
 
diff --git a/packages/py-pycuda/package.py b/packages/py-pycuda/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b524993e154fc6eba668838bab850e9ef6014f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/py-pycuda/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+from spack.pkg.builtin.boost import Boost
+
+
+class PyPycuda(PythonPackage):
+    """PyCUDA gives you easy, Pythonic access to Nvidia's CUDA parallel
+    computation API
+    """
+
+    homepage = "https://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda/"
+    pypi = "pycuda/pycuda-2019.1.2.tar.gz"
+
+    # begin EBRAINS (added): added new version
+    version("2023.1", sha256="175ff675f0cf10e38e9adc03ed5df3ed8d8abf7da5134c8dccec752e8a0a3e91")
+    # end EBRAINS
+    version("2021.1", sha256="ab87312d0fc349d9c17294a087bb9615cffcf966ad7b115f5b051008a48dd6ed")
+    version("2020.1", sha256="effa3b99b55af67f3afba9b0d1b64b4a0add4dd6a33bdd6786df1aa4cc8761a5")
+    version("2019.1.2", sha256="ada56ce98a41f9f95fe18809f38afbae473a5c62d346cfa126a2d5477f24cc8a")
+    version("2016.1.2", sha256="a7dbdac7e2f0c0d2ad98f5f281d5a9d29d6673b3c20210e261b96e9a2d0b6e37")
+
+    @run_before("install")
+    def configure(self):
+        pyver = self.spec["python"].version.up_to(2).joined
+        boostlib = "boost_python{0}".format(pyver)
+        configure_args = [
+            "--no-use-shipped-boost",
+            "--boost-inc-dir={0}".format(self.spec["boost"].prefix.include),
+            "--boost-lib-dir={0}".format(self.spec["boost"].libs.directories[0]),
+            "--boost-python-libname={0}".format(boostlib),
+        ]
+        python("configure.py", *configure_args)
+
+    depends_on("py-setuptools", type="build")
+    depends_on("cuda")
+    depends_on("boost+python")
+    # TODO: replace this with an explicit list of components of Boost,
+    # for instance depends_on('boost +filesystem')
+    # See https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/22303 for reference
+    depends_on(Boost.with_default_variants)
+    depends_on("python@3.6:3", type=("build", "run"), when="@2020.1:")
+    depends_on("py-numpy@1.6:", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-pytools@2011.2:", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-six", type="run", when="@:2020.1")
+    depends_on("py-decorator@3.2.0:", type=("build", "run"), when="@:2020.1")
+    depends_on("py-appdirs@1.4.0:", type=("build", "run"))
+    depends_on("py-mako", type=("build", "run"))
+
+    depends_on("cuda@:8.0.61", when="@2016.1.2")