U.S.-Brazil Planning Visit: Development of a Device for Real Time Interaction With the Brain

美国-巴西计划访问：开发一种与大脑实时交互的设备。迪亚戈·雷斯特雷波，科罗拉多大学丹佛分校，HSC拟议中的计划访问将建立美国和巴西科学家之间的双边合作，为实时研究清醒行为动物的大脑功能开发新的工程解决方案。计划访问的东道主是巴西塞拉联邦大学的Fátima de Medeiros博士、Joséda Graça博士和Marcelo de Souza博士。科罗拉多大学丹佛健康科学中心的研究人员应用计算机技术，如嗅觉仪、细胞外多单位记录和大脑微刺激，研究清醒小鼠的大脑和嗅觉行为。这项拟议中的合作将在之前研究与大脑的实时交互作用的基础上进行扩展，在这种交互作用中，外部电路评估神经输出并实时影响神经元放电。巴西的合作者将提供计算机专业知识，以提高嗅觉仪的速度和实时效率。

U.S.-Brazil Planning Visit: Development of a device for real time interaction with the brain. 0822533Diego Restrepo, University of Colorado at Denver, HSCThe proposed planning visit will establish a bilateral collaboration between U.S. and Brazilian scientists to develop novel engineering solutions for the study of brain function in awake behaving animals in real time. The hosts for the planning visit are Drs. Fátima de Medeiros, José da Graça, and Marcelo de Souza from Brazil's Universidade Federal do Ceara. Researchers at the University of Colorado at Denver's Health Sciences Center have applied computerized technologies, such as olfactometers, extracellular multiunit recording, and cerebral microstimulation to study the brain and olfactory behavior in awake mice. The proposed collaboration will expand upon previous work to study real time interaction with the brain where extraneous circuits evaluate neural output and affect neuronal firing in real time. The Brazilian collaborators will provide computer expertise to improve the speed and real time efficiency of the olfactometer.