Sentences with phrase «neural engineering lab»

This 10 - week summer program on the University of Washington (UW) Seattle Campus gives students an intensive neuroscience and neural engineering lab research experience, supplemented by workshops in ethics, communications and scientific presentation skills.

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Now head of her own lab at Stanford, Heilshorn engineers proteins to aid neural stem cells in healing injured brains and spines.

Fraden's lab approached the challenge of engineering a material mimicking the generator by first constructing a control device that produces the same neural activation patterns biologists have observed.

«We may have discovered a major step toward developing a «dream tool» for remotely controlling neural circuits, by manipulating specific cells using engineered gene products that respond to magnets,» said Ali Deniz Güler, a UVA biology professor who led the study in his neuroscience lab.

The neural engineering curriculum unit he designed helps students understand how BCIs work, based on knowledge he gained in the program and his experience in the lab.

Students from the neuroethics team are part of the research groups in CSNE - affiliated labs, and they engage in regular conversation about neuroethics and the impact of neural engineering technology on end - users.

This is vital to explore because the impact of neural technology extends beyond the lab setting into people's everyday lives, particularly because neural engineering devices are created for the long - term goal of helping people heal, feel and move again.

Researchers in the lab's neural engineering research group focus on optimizing the technology of closed - loop deep implantable neurostimulators (DBS), which can be used to manage motor and mental conditions like essential tremor, Parkinson's disease and dystonia.

But for the past four years, a small group of Seattle - area educators have elected to spend their summers on the UW Seattle campus, conducting engineering research in a CSNE - affiliated lab and developing a curriculum unit to bring the principles of neural engineering to their students.

For some high school students, this is their first time working in a lab, let alone on a neural engineering project.

Although most students come in with strong foundations in basic science and math coursework, this is often their first experience working in a neural engineering research lab.

Unlike these other programs, which offer intensive lab research experiences over many weeks, YSP - REACH offers students a broad overview of neural engineering within a shorter timeframe.