We will have the please to welcome Axel Hutt in the lab on December 6 and 7. Many of you are probably familiar with his work on neural field models. He will give a seminar December 6th at 10 am, in the 5th floor meeting room. You are all very much welcome to attend! Please find below the details of his talk:
Title: "Transcranial neurostimulation: combining theory and experiments"
Transcranial neurostimulation represents an important clinical procedure to alleviate symptoms of mental disorder patients. Theoretical studies of the neural dynamics in the pathological brain provide some insights into future ways how to stimulate the brain optimally.
In the first part, the talk will present recent modeling work on psychosis effects in an animal model. The employed neural mass model considers the endogenous noise level, which tunes the brain activity. Here, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is supposed to control the endogenous noise level.
In a second part, we will present a novel closed-loop feedback technique, which permits to control the power spectral density of the brain. First software implementations and near-future hardware implementations will be discussed.
Finally, the talk will present briefly preliminary experimental results on the effect of auditory beat stimulation on visual attention in neurotypicals and subjects with attention deficits. An outlook to future work will close the talk.
Looking forward to see you there!
Best,
Julien