Introduction
This document is a brief introduction to the Master’s Thesis for Engineering students at Temple. Disclaimer: This document is incomplete! You are ultimately responsible for making sure you meet all the thesis criteria. If something important has been missed, please feel free to edit this document yourself, or to email Dr. Obeid (iobeid@temple.edu) with the [...]

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The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Neuroscience Database Gateway (NDG) provides extensive access to experimental data databases, knowledge bases, software tools for neuroscience, bioinformatics resources, providers of research materials, and
all neuroscience databases.1
Databases

SenseLab
The SenseLab Project (hosted by Yale University) is a long term effort to build integrated, multidisciplinary models of neurons and neural systems, using the olfactory [...]

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This programming guide is intended to be a primer for novices attempting to run the NEURON simulator. Complete programming references, tutorials, and other documentation may be found on the author’s site.
Getting Started
NEURON may be downloaded from http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/install/install.html for Linux, MSWin (95 and up), and Mac OS X 10.4. NIL is running NEURON within the [...]

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Scholarships & Fellowships:

DoD SMART – App was due 12/17/07
NDSEG – App due 1/7/08
Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) – Not accepting apps for fiscal 2008
National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellows

Grants

NIH R21 for Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology
NIH R21 for Neurotechnology Research, Development, and Enhancement
NIH [...]

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Education

MetEast High School- 12th Grade Student.

Research Interests

Computer Programming
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Simulations of Real-World Mechanics

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Fiber based electrode for intercortical recordings
Background
Neurons form the fundamental information processing units of human brain. They communicate amongst themselves through an action potential resulting from electro-chemical activities. Essentially, axons of transmitting neurons move closer to the dendrites of receiving neurons for a shot of ion release. This action creates an electric potential of around +40mV [...]

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Karthikeyan Balasubramanian,
Doctoral Student,
Neural Instrumentation Lab,
Temple University.
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Academic Profile
M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi, 2004
B.Tech, Bharathidasan University – Trichy, 2002
Diploma, Institute of Textile Technology – Chennai, 1999
Current Research
Fiber based electrodes for intercortical recordings
One of the key components of BMIs (Brain Machine Interfaces) are a suitable electrode. The present research  is to develop a [...]

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Education

MS Electrical Engineering – Temple University 2007
BS Computer Engineering – Temple University 2004

Research Interests

Adaptive signal processing
Parallel signal processing algorithm developement
Signal processing architectures utilizing Progammable Gate Arrays
Societies

Eta Kappa Nu

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Introduction
The goal of this project is to determine what tuning curves look like for neurons that are simultaneously tuned to multiple stimuli. We are using pre-existing data in which monkeys had to focus on two different visual cues at the same time. The neurons recorded in this study are in the pre-frontal cortex and were [...]

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Background
A Brain Machine Interface is a connection between a brain and a device which enables neural signals (spikes) to direct an external activity. Its purpose is to restore movement and control for people with damaged sensory and motor functions. In order to arrive at a practical implementation of a BMI, the way the brain encodes [...]

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Preparing to install
The following steps were only tested on Ubuntu 6.06 Desktop edition. I highly recommend you Ubuntu 6.06 Desktop edition for trouble free installation.
Create a directory

$HOME
mkdir cvs
cd cvs
mkdir downloads

Download Tinyos and EmStar
EmStar

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.cens.ucla.edu:/home/cvs/cvsroot login
password: anoncvs
cvs -z9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.cens.ucla.edu:/home/cvs/cvsroot co emstar

TinyOS

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@tinyos.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tinyos login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@tinyos.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tinyos co tinyos-1.x

Java

cd download
sudo apt-get install elinks [...]

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Software
Small-form-factor, low-power wireless sensors – motes – are convenient to deploy, but lack the bandwidth to capture and transmit raw high-frequency data, such as human voices or neural signals, in real time. Local filtering can help, but the right filter settings depend on changing ambient conditions and network effects such as congestion, which makes them [...]

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Education

B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering, Temple University, 2005-Present

Research Experience

June 2007 – Present, Temple Neural Instrumentation Lab

Societies

IEEE
NSBE
ACM

Projects

VanGo : Capturing High-Frequency Phenomena Using a Bandwidth-Limited Sensor Network
Learn Like A Human: Hierarchical Temporal Memory

Research

 VanGo Documents

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This is the Summer 2007 lab personnel.

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NADIA BARAKAT
Research Assistant
Email: naaadia@temple.edu
Research Interests

Neural spike detection methods and systems
Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design
Low-power integrated electronics for prosthetic devices

Education
M.S. (Master of Science in BioEngineering), Temple Univ. Graduation date: May 2008
B.S. (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering), Temple Univ.: 2002-2006
Work Experience
Research Assistant, Temple Univ. Philadelphia, PA 2007 – present
Internship 2, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. [...]

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Iyad Obeid, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: Room 703
Phone: 215-204-9033
Email: iobeid@temple.edu
Research Interests
Brain Machine Interfaces (BMIs) are an emerging technology whose purpose is to allow volitional neural control of prosthetic devices. Advances in this area, although impressive, are limited by the general requirement that subjects be tethered to bulky recording hardware that severely [...]

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Note that for most journals, you can sign up for the Table of Contents to be emailed to you for free when a new issue comes out.

Web of Science : Must be on a campus network to use this link.
Pubmed : The standard for searching medical research
IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering
IEEE Neural Systems and Rehabilitation [...]

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Background
Brain Machine Interfaces (BMIs) are an emerging technology whose purpose is to allow amputees and spinal cord injury patients to control a prosthetic limb using signals from the brain. One particular area of BMI research uses signals from ensembles of individual neurons that are recorded using densely packed arrays of cortical electrodes. Because [...]

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