Neurophysics and Neuroengineering Presentation
Neurophysics (Neural Physics) is a branch of biophysics, medical physics or Neuroscience which studies the nervous system including brain, spinal cord and nerves.
Neurophysics and Neuroengineering Presentation
Lecturer :
Dr. Reza khan Babaei
Ph.D in Neurophysics,USA.
Post doc in Neuroscience,Canada.
Neurophysics (Neural Physics) is a branch of biophysics, medical physics or Neuroscience which studies the nervous system including brain, spinal cord and nerves. Neurophysics investigates the fundamental physics basis for the brain function, hence the cognition process. This branch of physics covers a wide spectrum of phenomena, from cellular and molecular mechanisms to techniques to measure and influence the brain, and also to theories of brain function. In summary, Neurophysics is an approach to neuroscience based on the fundamental laws of nature, and investigate and develop the physical laws for neural engineering, diagnoses and therapy of neural diseases. Computational neurophysics and experimental neurophysics are two major branches of neurophysics.
Neuroengineering (neural engineering) is an immerging interdisciplinary branch of bioengineering or biomedical engineering that uses engineering techniques and the fundamental physical basis of neural system to study, repair, replace, and enhance the functions of neural system. In other words, neuroengineers are qualified to solve the problems or designing the interface of living neural tissue and non-living constructs. Neuroengineering uses the expertise and technologies from electrical, computer, materials and mechanical engineering and also robotics, nanotechnology and cybernetics to design systems for diagnostic, monitoring and therapy of neural diseases. Nowadays many researches are focused on understanding the coding and processing of information in the sensory and motor systems in order to quantifying how this processing is altered in the pathological state, so that a reliable diagnosis could be made for the problem. Then with the help of brain-computer interfaces and also building neuroprosthetics the neural function could be repaired or even a part of it could be replaced.
In this talk and in the workshops afterward, I will try to give a wide and applied overview of known physical laws of neural system and also engineering techniques for computational and experimental researches in this field.
Time: 17 May,2017.
Place: NBML.
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