Building Better Brains: Neural Prosthetics and Beyond Posted By: David Kennedy - Sep 2, 2010Tool/Resource: Conferences, Workshops and Meetings September 23 - 25, 2010 | Aspen, CO Building Better Brains: Neural Prosthetics and Beyond Neural prosthetic devices to replace motor, sensory, and cognitive function lost by disease or trauma hold great therapeutic promise. Featuring keynote speaker, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota Medical School, this conference will showcase the most cutting-edge research on using of neural prosthetics as effective therapeutic devices in humans and discussion of ways to overcome the current limitations. Organizers: Richard Andersen, PhD, California Institute of Technology; P. Hunter Peckham, PhD, Case Western Reserve University; Andrew Schwartz, PhD, University of Pittsburgh. Speakers: Niels Birbaumer, PhD, University of Tübingen; Edward S. Boyden III, PhD, MIT; Jacqueline Bresnahan, PhD, University of California San Diego; Timothy Denison, PhD, Medtronic Neuromodulation; Martha J. Farah, PhD, University of Pennsylvania; Eberhard Erich Fetz, PhD, University of Washington; Howard Fillit, MD, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation; Joseph Fins, MD, Weill Cornell Medical Center; Robert S. Fisher, MD, PhD, Stanford University; Robert Greenberg, MD, PhD, Second Sight, Inc.; Leigh R. Hochberg, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital; Philip R. Kennedy, MD, PhD, Neural Signals, Inc.; Daryl R. Kipke, PhD, University of Michigan; Eric Claude Leuthardt, MD, Washington University School of Medicine; Col. Geoffrey Ling, MD, PhD, DARPA; Philip Low, PhD, NeuroVigil, Inc.; Yoky Matsuoka, PhD, University of Washington; Helen S. Mayberg, MD, Emory University School of Medicine; Daniel W. Moran, PhD, Washington University; Marc H. Schieber, MD, PhD, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; Krishna V. Shenoy, PhD, Stanford University; Dawn M. Taylor, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Dept. of Neurosciences; Patrick A. Tresco, PhD, University of Utah; Jonathan Wolpaw, MD, New York State Department of Health. |
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