Università Roma Tre

NEURAL ENGINEERING AA 2016-2017

BASICS OF NEURAL ENGINEERING
- INTRODUCTION TO NEURAL ENGINEERING, DEFINITIONS, FIELDS OF APPLICATION, PAST AND PRESENT TECHNOLOGIES.
- FOCUS OF THE COURSE: RECORDING FROM THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, STIMULATING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, EXTRACTING FEATURES, DEFINING MODELS
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PART 1 - FROM ANATOMY TO FUNCTION: NEURON MODELS
- BASICS OF ANATOMY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, BASICS OF ACTIVITY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, NEURAL CELL STRUCTURE, NEURAL CELL FUNCTIONING, RESTING POTENTIAL, ACTION POTENTIAL GENERATION AND PROPAGATION
- PASSIVE NEURON MODELS
- ACTIVE NEURON MODELS: IF, H-H, FH-N

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PART 2 - INTERFACING AND RECORDING DATA FROM THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
- OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: BIOELECTRODES, TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS FOR TRANSFORMING ION CURRENTS INTO ELECTRONIC CURRENTS
- NEURAL RECORDING: MICROELECTRODES
- BIOPOTENTIALS: BASICS OF ELECTROMYOGRAPHY
- BIOPOTENTIALS: BASICS OF ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY
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PART 3 – EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
- SPIKE DETECTION
- SPIKE SORTING
- ACTIVITY 1: SPIKE DETECTION AND SORTING FROM NEURAL SIGNALS
- ACTIVITY 2: NEURAL SYSTEM - MODEL IDENTIFICATION - Muscle Synergies
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PART 4: STIMULATING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
- STIMULATING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS FOR ARTIFICALLY ACTIVATING THE NEURAL CELLS – BASICS OF TMS, TACS, TDCS, DBS, NMES.
- NMES-FES. TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES, APPLICATIONS.
- ACTIVITY 3: EMG ANALYSIS IN RESPONSE TO ELECTRICAL STIMULATION. M wave and H reflex
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