SFN 2008 Poster

Hi,

I won't be going to the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting this year, but I do have a poster.

Basically, the poster explores the network activity of a brain under two different types of drugs. Many studies with these drugs using just one brain cell give a predictable outcome, but the network activity under these drugs have not been explored. These drugs may not be doing what they are reported to be doing. The network of brain cells don't behave like single cells do.

New President

Late last night around 11:30pm Bloomington erupted in cheers as Obama was announced the winner of the Presidential election.


Throngs of people poured into the streets and marched up Kirkwood to the courthouse chanting Obama! Obama! Obama! It was an amazing event to witness, history in the making.

Patient doing great!!

Here is a video of the experiment last week. Electrical events are generated by the brain tissue on the array, and appear in the video as boxes of different color. The more colors the larger the electrical event. This is 1.6 seconds of data from the seizure focus.



Surgery: Occipital lobe resection


Seizure tissue on the Micro Electrode Array




Last Wednesday we had a patient with a seizure focus in the occipital lobe. Jodi was able to remove the seizure focus, and the patient is fully recovered with no deficits!

Election Woes

I'm here, alive, but I'm in the process of writing a paper. The paper will describe the results from the human experiments. It will characterize the spatiotemporal characteristics and modes of the data.

I've also been taking a course at Penn. State Neural Control Engineering with Steve Schiff. Steve, Chair of Biomedical Engineering, is a Neurosurgeon and a Physicist. His lectures are excellent, and I can interact online during the course with video.



Calvin is sick of hearing about the election and wants to know what CNN is going to cover after the election is over? Apparently nothing has happened in the world since the US presidential election.