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互动的设备。[0822533] diego Restrepo，科罗拉多大学丹佛分校，hscc拟议中的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。这次计划访问的东道主是dr。Fátima de Medeiros， josise da gracora和来自巴西联邦大学的Marcelo de Souza。科罗拉多大学丹佛健康科学中心的研究人员已经应用计算机技术，如嗅觉计、细胞外多单元记录和大脑微刺激来研究清醒小鼠的大脑和嗅觉行为。拟议的合作将扩展先前的工作，以研究与大脑的实时交互，其中外回路评估神经输出并实时影响神经元放电。巴西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.