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SUMMARY:Blue Brain Seminar - Engineering brain-wide activity patterns for 
 therapeutics
DTSTART:20191202T150000
DTEND:20191202T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T094003Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Mehmet Fatih Yanik\nBlue Brain is delighted to announce 
 that the next seminar in the series in Neural Computation\, will be on ‘
 Engineering brain-wide activity patterns for therapeutics’. The seminar 
 will be given by Prof. Mehmet Fatih Yanik\, Institute for Neuroinformatics
 \, ETH Zurich.\n\nBiography:\nProf. Yanik received his BS and MS in Engine
 ering and Physics at MIT in 2000\, and PhD in Applied Physics at Stanford 
 in 2006. He completed postdoctoral work in Stanford Bioengineering and Neu
 rosurgery. He subsequently served as Assistant and later as Associate Prof
 essor till he received tenure at MIT. He is currently full professor at ET
 H Zurich. His studies are recognized by NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (y
 oungest recipient)\, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award\, NIH Transforma
 tive Research Award\, Packard Award in Engineering and Science\, Alfred S
 loan Award in Neuroscience\, NIH Eureka Award\, NSF Career Award\, Sil
 icon Valley’s Innovator's Challenge Award\, Technology Review Magazine
 ’s “World’s top 35 innovators under age 35”\, Junior Chamber Inter
 national’s “Outstanding Young Person"\, and others.\n\nAbstract: \nBr
 ain networks are disrupted in numerous disorders. Existing treatment optio
 ns often cannot address such complex dysfunctions. We first show how the 
 aberrant brain-wide activity patterns can be completely corrected by targ
 eting distinct network motifs with multiple neuromodulators using a zebra
 fish model of human epilepsy and autism. This systematic approach rescue
 s behaviour unlike any other treatment. With methods promising future ther
 apeutic use\, we next show how specific molecular targets in different br
 ain circuits can be non-invasively and spatially targeted in mammals and p
 otentially in primates\, and discuss how cortex-wide activity patterns ca
 n be captured chronically at single-neuron resolution with minimal invasi
 veness.\n 
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