A CNT MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

NOVEMBER 2020

A NEW CHIP FOR NEURAL INTERFACES

Photo illustration of Chris Rudell and Visvesh Sathe

Engineers design a tiny, implantable chip to deepen understanding of the brain and enable better treatments for neurological disorders
CNT members Chris Rudell (left) and Visvesh Sathe (right) lead a research team at the University of Washington that has designed a new, implantable chip for neural interfaces. This chip will help increase knowledge about the brain and enable better treatments for a wide range of medical conditions such as Parkinson's disease, depression and epilepsy.

HONORS AND AWARDS

CNT member Amy Orsborn was a speaker at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' virtual program, " The brain-computer interface is coming and we are so not ready for it."

UPCOMING EVENTS

Photo of a woman standing next to her scientific poster

New Neural Engineering Seminar Series at the University of Washington (ongoing)
November 19: Brain-Computer Interfaces—Innovation, Security, and Society at the 10th Symposium of the Neurotechnology Center, Columbia University. CNT member Eberhard Fetz will be a keynote speaker.
December 4: Simons-Emory Workshop on Neural Dynamics, with Adrienne Fairhall and Mehrdad Jazayeri
January 11–13, 2021: Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome: A Virtual Event
The CNT and the DO-IT program at the University of Washington are recruiting high school students for the Neuroscience for Neurodiverse Learners project. We are seeking students who identify as neurodiverse and are interested in STEM.

CNT IN THE NEWS

Scientists uncover new clues about Parkinson's disease
Researchers in CNT member Ann Graybiel's lab at MIT have developed a tool that simultaneously records electrical and chemical brain signals, revealing an unexpectedly complex relationship between the two.

Surreal illustration of scientists working on a brain implant

Could brain implants ever make telekinesis possible?
Could we use neurotechnology to move objects with our minds? CNT members Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco comment on whether or not brain implants could someday make telekinesis possible in this article, which ran in Gizmodo.

NEW CNT PUBLICATIONS

Griggs, D.J., Bloch, J., Chavan, S., Coubrough, K.M., Conley, W., Morrisroe, K. and Yazdan-Shahmorad, A., Autonomous cage-side system for remote training of non-human primates, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, October 2020
Ferleger, B.I., Houston, B., Thompson, M.C., Cooper, S.S., Sonnet, K.S., Ko, A.L., Herron, J.A. and Chizeck, H.J., Fully implanted adaptive deep brain stimulation in freely moving essential tremor patients, Journal of Neural Engineering, October 2020
Stramondo, J.A., The right to assistive technology, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, September 2020
Mondello, S.E., Pedigo, B., Sunshine, M.D., Fischedick, A.E., Horner, P.J. and Moritz, C.T., A micro-LED implant and technique for optogenetic stimulation of the rat spinal cord, Experimental Neurology, September 2020
Ferleger, B.I., Sonnet, K.S., Morriss, T.H., Ko, A.L., Chizeck, H.J. and Herron, J.A., A tablet- and mobile-based application for remote diagnosis and analysis of movement disorder symptoms, 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada, pp. 5588–5591 August 2020
Cooper, S.S., Ferleger, B.I., Ko, A.L., Herron, J.A. and Chizeck, H.J., Rebound effect in deep brain stimulation for essential tremor and symptom severity estimation from neural data, 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Montreal, QC, Canada, pp. 3621–3624 August 2020
Castaño-Candamil, S., Ferleger, B.I., Haddock, A., Cooper, S.S., Herron, J., Ko, A., Chizeck, H.J. and Tangermann, M., A pilot study on data-driven adaptive deep brain stimulation in chronically implanted essential tremor patients, Frontiers of Human Neuroscience, (in press)
Sonnet, K.S., Ferleger, B.I., Ko, A.L., Chizeck, H.J. and Herron, J.A., Multi-class classification and feature analysis of FTM drawing tasks in a digital assessment of tremor, 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Bioinformatics and BioEngineering Society