====== Penn State Center for Neural Engineering ====== {{research:cne:bruce_and_i.jpg}}{{research:cne:curcuits_in_hands.jpg}}\\ Center for Neural Engineering *[[http://www.esm.psu.edu/wiki/research:sjs49:start|Steven J. Schiff]] Director *[[http://www.esm.psu.edu/wiki/research:bjg18:start|Bruce J. Gluckman]] Associate Director *[[http://www.esm.psu.edu/wiki/research:csd12:start|Corina Drapaca]], Assistant Professor, Engineering Sciences and Mechanics *[[http://www.esm.psu.edu/positions|Faculty Positions in Neural Engineering]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[[cnethisweek08fall| Fall 2008 Schedule]] ===== Neural Engineering ===== [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_engineering#University_Laboratories%20%3Chttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_engineering#University_Laboratories|Neural engineering]] is a discipline that uses engineering techniques to understand, repair, replace, enhance, or treat the diseases of neural systems. Neural engineers are uniquely qualified to solve design problems at the interface of living neural tissue and non-living constructs. ** See June, 2008 article at [[http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20856/|Technology Review]] ** \\ ====== Teaching ====== ===== Programs ===== [[PhD|New Neural Engineering PhD Track in Engineering Sciences and Mechanics]] [[MD-PhD|New MD-PhD Track in Engineering Sciences and Mechanics]] ===== Courses ===== | Course Name | S2009 | F2008 | S2008 | F2007 | S2007 | F2006 | | [[#Fund. Neural Eng. Interfaces]] | |ESC597D | | X | X | | | [[#Neural Control Engineering]] | |ESC597A | | | | | | [[#Brain Computer Interfaces]] | | | | | | | | [[#INTG SYS NEUR ENGR]] | ESC596E | ESC596E | ESC596E | | | | [[http://soc.our.psu.edu/soc/fall/Allup/d-h/e_sc.html# | ESM Schedule]] === Fund. Neural Eng. Interfaces === **Neural Engineering: Fundamentals of Interfacing with Brain (3)** Biophysical basis of neural function, measurable signals, and neural stimulation; fundamentals of hardware-brain interfaces; survey of modern applications. {{:research:cne:f08_597d_abs_fundamentals_neural_interfaces.doc.pdf|Fall 2008: ESC597D}} === Neural Control Engineering === ** Neural Control Engineering (3)** Principles of nonlinear Kalman filtering for state estimation and controlof neural systems including single neurons, networks, cortex, Parkinson's disease === Brain Computer Interfaces === **Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI): Translate Thought into Action (3)** Extensive advances have been made within the last decade to translate measurements of brain activity for prosthetic output. This course, targeted to engineering and science students, will introduce this field through hands-on experiments and design projects. We will cover an introduction to electroenephalogram (EEG) recording and interpretation, applied signal processing, discrimination and classification, and control programming. Students will apply these tools to implement their own BCI projects. This is a laboratory class, with groups of students working to record and analyze each other’s EEG. === INTG SYS NEUR ENGR === **Integrated Systems Neural Engineering (1)** Journal Club Course to review current literature in integrated systems neural engineering. Topics vary with to participants interests and current publications, but may include topics in signal processing, models and theory of seizure dynamics, experiments to understand neural activity during behavior and processing, instrumentation and materials for interfacing with brain. ====== Research ====== {{research:cne:ning_lab.jpg }}{{research:cne:subdural_array.jpg|}}{{research:cne:kamrun_eeg.jpg}}\\ The Penn State Center for Neural Engineering is a university-wide Center, bridging the campuses and Colleges of Engineering and Science at University Park, with the College of Medicine at Hershey. It is housed within facilities of the Department of Neurosurgery and the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics. The Center is positioned to facilitate and enable collaboration between faculty from the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences, Materials Research, and Neuroscience Institutes at Penn State, and forms a physical conduit for faculty and students from across the Engineering Departments, the Integrative Biosciences Neuroscience Program, Physics, Mathematics, and Biology, as well as trainees and faculty from Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Psychiatry. The Center has resident core faculty, with a considerable number of faculty Affiliates drawn from University Park and Hershey. The Center enables the successful conduct of interdisciplinary research and acquisition of funding for projects that individual Penn State scientists could not perform on their own... [[Detailed description of the Center for Neural Engineering|Detailed description of the Center for Neural Engineering]] {{research:cne:penn_state_magazine_winter_2006_article.pdf|Penn State Medicine Magazine Article Winter 2006}} {{research:cne:engineering_the_brain_materials_research_institute_bulletin_penn_state_fall_2007.pdf|Engineering the Brain, Materials Research Institute Bulletin, Fall 2007}} ====== Outreach ====== With support from a Grace Woodward Grant for Collaborative Research in Engineering and Medicine, we are developing active collaborations with scientists and physicians working on improving the diagnosis and treatment of neurosurgical diseases in [[https://secure.esm.psu.edu/wiki/research:sjs49:east_africa|East Africa]]. ====== Schedules ====== ==== CNE Weekly Schedule ==== * :-P ** [[cnethisweek08fall| Fall 2008]] ** :-P | [[cnethisweek08spring| Spring 2008]] | [[cnethisweek07fall| Fall 2007]] | [[cnethisweek07 | Spring 07]] === Journal Clubs === | ^ Fall 2008 ^ Spring 2008 ^ ^ Systems NE | [[SYS_NE_JC_Fall2008]] | | ^ Cellular NE | [[Cellular_NE_JC_Fall2008]] | | ^ Imaging NE | | | ^ BCI/BMI | | | ==== Neural Engineering and Neuroscience Seminars ==== * **[[http://www.huck.psu.edu/institutes-and-centers/neuroscience/neuroscience-events | Fall 2008 ]]** | Spring 2008 | [[cneseminar07fall | Fall 2007 ]] | [[cneseminars07 | Spring 07 ]] ==== Meetings of Interest ==== * [[MeetingsOfInterest2007#summer_fall_2007 | Summer Fall 2007]] | [[MeetingsOfInterest2007#spring_summer_2008 | Spring Summer 2008]] ==== Meetings Organized / Co-organized ==== * **[[http://www.esm.psu.edu/coeonp|Implanting Change - The Ethics of Neural Prosthetics]] ** \\ NIMH Supported Conference on the Ethics of Neural Prosthetics, August 26-28, 2007 * [[Grantsmanship | NIH Grantsmanship Workshop at PSU ]] \\ August 28, 2007, 2:30-4:30, Berg Auditorium, 100 Life Sciences Building (broadcast to Hershey Room CG623) ====== People ====== [[Faculty and Staff]] | [[Current Trainees]] | [[Former Trainees]]