conference: Replacement Parts for the Brain: Intracranial Implantation of Hardware Models of Neural Circuitry

[John Rinehart]

Replacement Parts for the Brain:  Intracranial Implantation
of Hardware Models of Neural Circuitry

An NIMH, USC-AMI Sponsored Conference

August 12-14 1999, Willard Hotel Washington D.C.


 This conference will bring together leading researchers throughout
the country for a focus on one of the newest frontiers of
neuroscientific and bioengineering research: the intracranial
implantation of computer chip models of brain function as neural
prosthetics to replace damaged or dysfunctional brain tissue.  In
considering the development of "replacement parts for the brain",
speakers will address recent advances in (i) biologically realistic
mathematical models of brain or spinal cord function, (ii) silicon-
and/or photonics-based computational devices which incorporate those
models, and (ii) "neuron-silicon interface" devices, i.e.,
micron-scale multi-site electrode arrays to provide bi-directional
communication between the computational element and functioning
neuronal tissue.  The conference is intended to synergize
interdisciplinary research in the neural, engineering, and biomedical
sciences.


For more information regarding the conference and meeting registration,
please click on the conference web site address:

    http://www.usc.edu/dept/biomed/NeuralProstheticsCNF

Conference Organizers:

Theodore W. Berger, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Neural Engineering
500 Olin Hall
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1450
telephone: 213-740-8017
fax: 213-740-0343
e-mail: berger at bmsrs.usc.edu

Dennis Glanzman, Ph.D.
Chief, Theoretical Neuroscience Program
NIMH
Room 11-102
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD
telephone: 301-443-1576
fax: 301-443-4822
e-mail: glanzman at helix.nih.gov