Listening to the brain
Just for fun here are some brief recordings of what the brain "sounds" like. Action potentials are an electrical signal and can be replayed as sound. Experts can hear the differences between multiple units (neurons) recorded by the same electrode. Here I created frequency-shifted version where each sort has a unique tone which sounds like an old NES game (and here is the raw sound). These neurons were recorded during the voluntary initiation and continuation of bipedal locomotion. Can you hear the interactions between these neurons and when the brain says "go"? [Right-click the links and choose "Save Link As..." to save the audio files to your computer]
Funding Support
International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia
National Science Foundation (NSF)
NSF International Research and Education in Engineering (IREE)
UF Alumni Association Fellowship
Societies
IEEE Engineers in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS)
Collaborators
Grégoire Courtine, Ph.D. Courtine Lab , EPFL
Aldo Faisal, Ph.D. Brains &
Behavior Lab - Dept. of Computing & Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
Jose Fortes, Ph.D. Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory (ACIS) , University of Florida
Aysegul Gunduz, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering Dept, University of Florida
Babak Mahmoudi Neuroprosthetic Research Group (NRG), University of Florida
Silvestro Micera, Ph.D. (supervisor) Translational Neural Engineering Lab, EPFL & Neural Interfaces Group Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Pavel Musienko, MD Ph.D. Translational Neural Engineering Lab, Courtine Lab, EPFL & Koltushi lab Pavlov Institute of Physiology
Jose C. Principe, Ph.D. Computational NeuroEngineering Lab (CNEL), University of Florida
Prapaporn "Nan" Rattanatamrong Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory (ACIS), University of Florida
Justin C. Sanchez, Ph.D. Neuroprosthetic Research Group (NRG), University of Miami
Reference Sites
Pubmed: indexes most journals/conferences and allows: Automating Literature Search with PubMed
Personal Favorites
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Humor
xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
The Oatmeal: great comics
Stuff You Should Know: Excellent podcast from How Stuff Works. Josh & Chuck keep me laughing while teaching me random things.
The Adam Carolla Show Great daily show with interesting guests, news, and super fast improv. Hilarious
My Brother, My Brother, and Me An advice show for the modern era - ridiculous but great
Comedy Bang Bang Fantastic improv
Mohr Stories Jay Mohr's interviews dig deep and have you laughing.
Girl on Guy Aisha Tyler is genuinely funny.
HelpMikeyFindaWifey: The sad dating misadventures of my good friend Mikey and the interesting women he dates. (now defunct)
Art
Joseph DiGiovanna's Photography and Music
VacHead Designs: One of a kind contemporary functional art. Check out the Nixie tube clocks
News
Engadget: www.engadget.com
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. slashdot.org
TechCrunch: www.techcrunch.com
The Daily Grist: Doom and gloom with a sense of humor. www.grist.org
Language/ Culture
English Forum: Very active forum for English speakers in Switzerland. www.englishforum.ch
German Podcast: This German podcast has over 75 episodes available. german-podcast.blogspot.com
LearnItalianPod: Thorough podcast to learn Italian, new episodes at least once a week. Over 5 years of content available. www.LearnItalianPod.com
Editing Software
Paint.net Free image and photo editing software for Windows, similar to Photoshop. Used in many of my publications.http://paint.net
Inkscape Open source, scalable vector graphics editor. Also used in nearly all of my publications. http://inkscape.org
Charity
THON: Conquering Childhood Cancer. www.thon.org
Livestrong: The Lance Armstrong Foundation. www.livestrong.org
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: www.leukemia-lymphoma.org
Susan G. Komen for the Cure: ww5.komen.org
Commercial
Tucker-Davis Technologies: A leading provider of neurophysiology hardware. I have used their equipement for all of my neuronal recordings, paradigms, and real-time brain-machine interfaces.www.tdt.com
Burlington Electrical Testing: a NETA certified company specializing in the electrical testing of switchgear, substations, distribution transformers and co-gen electrical services. Additionally they have experience in diagnosing and removing electromagnetic noise in lab enviroments www.betest.com
Project Management Blog
Agile Research? My adventures implementing Agile techniques for research management [blog currently defunct] http://agile-research.blogspot.com