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SUMMARY:Cancelled. Non-invasive neural inferfacing with high-information t
 ransfer with the human spinal cord
DTSTART:20200428T121500
DTEND:20200428T131500
DTSTAMP:20260527T190453Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dario Farina\, Professor and Chair in Neurorehabilitation Engi
 neering\, Imperial College London\, UK.\nCANCELLED\n\n\nAlpha motor neuron
 s receive synaptic input that they convert into the ultimate neural code o
 f movement -- the neural drive to muscles. The study of the behaviour of m
 otor neurons provides a window into the neural processing of movement. Rec
 ently\, the interfacing (bioelectrodes) and processing methods for identif
 ying the output of motor neuron pools from interference electromyogram (EM
 G) signals have been advanced substantially. In the past decade\, these me
 thods have indeed allowed the monitoring of the behaviour of tens to hundr
 eds of motor neurons concurrently\, with minimally invasive or non-invasiv
 e methods. This new population analysis has opened new perspectives in the
  study of neural control of movement. The talk will overview the technolog
 y for motor neuron interfacing as well as the potential of motor neuron re
 cording technology for man-machine interfacing. Examples of closed-loop ne
 ural interfacing based on non-invasive decoding of spinal motor neuron beh
 aviour will be discussed in relation to assistive and rehabilitation devic
 es.\n\nBio\nDario Farina received Ph.D. degrees in automatic control and c
 omputer science and in electronics and communications engineering from the
  Ecole Centrale de Nantes\, Nantes\, France\, and Politecnico di Torino\, 
 Italy\, in 2001 and 2002\, respectively\, and an Honorary Doctorate degree
  in Medicine from Aalborg University\, Denmark\, in 2018. He is currently 
 Full Professor and Chair in Neurorehabilitation Engineering at the Departm
 ent of Bioengineering of Imperial College London\, UK. He has previously b
 een Full Professor at Aalborg University\, Aalborg\, Denmark\, (until 2010
 ) and at the University Medical Center Göttingen\, Georg-August Universit
 y\, Germany\, where he founded and directed the Department of Neurorehabil
 itation Systems (2010-2016). Among other awards\, he has been the recipien
 t of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Ach
 ievement Award (2010)\, The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (20
 16)\, and has been elected Distinguished Lecturer IEEE (2014). He has also
  received continuous funding by the European Research Council since 2011. 
 His research focuses on biomedical signal processing\, neurorehabilitation
  technology\, and neural control of movement. Within these areas\, he has 
 (co)-authored >450 papers in peer-reviewed Journals\, which have currently
  received >27\,000 citations. Professor Farina has been the President of t
 he International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (ISEK) (2012
 -2014) and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the official Journal of thi
 s Society\, the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology. He is also cu
 rrently an Editor for Science Advances\, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical E
 ngineering\, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics\, Wearable 
 Technologies\, and the Journal of Physiology. Professor Farina has been el
 ected Fellow IEEE\, AIMBE\, ISEK\, EAMBES.
LOCATION:Campus Biotech H8.D https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==H8%201%20144.167
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