Università Roma Tre

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.

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.

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: models of the spiking activity.

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

Horch, K. W., & Dhillon, G. S. (Eds.). (2004). Neuroprosthetics: theory and practice (Vol. 2). World Scientific.



He, B. (Ed.). (2007). Neural engineering. Springer Science & Business Media.