Connectionists: PhD position at Inria Nancy/France: Neural field modeling to describe general anaesthesia

[Axel Hutt]

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Neural Field modeling of general anesthesia by traversing scales in the brain.
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General anesthesia is a fixed part of hospital practice today but its underlying 
neural mechanism is far from being understood. The project aims to model the action 
of anaesthetic agents on single neurons and derives a neural population model 
involving these actions. The resulting model involves delayed integro-differential 
equations. It will be analyzed analytically and numerically. In a last step, the 
model parameters will be fitted optimally to experimental data in a Bayesian 
framework (Dynamical Causal Modeling). The experimental data may be 
electroencephalographic data or Local Field Potentials provided by external 
cooperation partners.

The PhD-project is financed for 3 years and is located at INRIA in Nancy/France 
in the team NEUROSYS (http://neurosys.loria.fr/).

The optimal candidate has a strong mathematical background in differential equations 
and/or statistical modeling and strong interest in neuroscience.

Please send applications by email to Axel Hutt (axel.hutt at inria.fr).