FENS-SfN Summer School: Brain reading and writing: new perspectives of neurotechnology

Organiser: FENS

Additional Organiser: Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

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Attendance type(s): In Person

FENS members will benefit from preferential rates

Event Dates: 02—8 Jun 2019

Recent advances in neuroscience and technology have made it possible to record from large assemblies of neurons and to decode their activity to extract information. At the same time, available methods to stimulate the brain and influence ongoing processing are also rapidly expanding. These developments pave the way for advanced neurotechnological applications applied to the human brain.

In this course, we will discuss the intracortical methods being developed for reading from, and writing to, the brain. A set of international lectures will provide an overview of the emerging therapeutic applications made possible with this technology. In addition to being exposed to new hardware, students will learn about and apply new computational approaches to facilitate brain-device communication. We will discuss some of the interesting ethical ramifications of a neuro-technologically assisted future.

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Name: FENS

Email: schools@fens.org