CONNECT FiS&T: A Non-Invasive Wireless Window into the Brain

Start Date: 04/20/2010
End Date: 04/20/2010
Time: 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Location: AMN Healthcare 12400 High Bluff Drive # 100 San Diego, CA 92130
Contact Name: Bethany Kraynack
Contact Email: bkraynack@connect.org
Contact Phone: 858-964-1312

CONNECT Frontiers in Science and Technology
In partnership with Morrison & Forester LLP

Program Overview:
Severe neuropathologies are usually diagnosed after significant, largely irreversible brain damage has already occurred. Dr. Low's goal is for people to reliably have access to their own brain health in real time, well in advance of the onset of cognitive symptoms. To this end, he has developed groundbreaking computational techniques which do not require data from loud and costly brain scanners or multichannel electrode arrays which restrict a person's overall ability to freely interact with the world. Instead, these algorithms allow for a rapid quantification, analysis, and classification of data from a single channel of electroencephalogram (EEG); prevent the need for manual analysis; and use the dynamic range of sleep EEGs as a window into brain activity.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Philip Steven Low received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago where he studied Mathematics, Neuroscience and Physics, and invented novel neurosurgical techniques undermining the role neuroscientists have attributed to the Neocortex. He did is graduate work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, which he attended on the recommendation of the late Francis Crick, Nobel Laureate of DNA fame.

Date: March 23, 2010
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Location: AMN Healthcare
12400 High Bluff Drive # 100
San Diego, CA 92130
Note: Lunch will be provided for participants.
Contact: Bethany Kraynack
Email: bkraynack@connect.org
Phone: 858-964-1312
Fees: CONNECT Members: $15
Non-Members: $25
Students: $10
At the Door $35
Register at: http://events.connect.org/index.php/component/option,com_events/Itemid,0/agid,129/day,23/month,03/task,view_detail/year,2010/