Looking to do Honours in 2024?

(or Masters or PhD)

Research information session (July 11, 4:45-7:30 pm)
The SoMS Translational Neuroscience Facility (TNF) runs a theme
Computational Physiology
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Created by Frederic von Wegner

Which areas of physiology are covered?

  • Electroencephalography (EEG)
  • Patterns of activity in neuronal networks
  • Wake-sleep transitions
  • Cardio-respiratory signal analysis

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EEG background (I)

EEG background (II)

EEG network activity

Colour-coding of brain electrical activity measured by EEG.
The dots represents the EEG electrodes, covering the skull surface.
These activity patterns can be analyzed with computational methods
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Network models

Neural activity can form waves and other patterns
In computational models, these patterns are studied in arbitrary network geometries

Wake & sleep

If you are interested to see how these methods have been used to analyze wake and sleep transitions, have a look at some publications

Cardio-respiratory signal analysis

Here is an example of a computational physiology project that was part of a SoMS Neuroscience Honours thesis (2020): Cardio-respiratory waveform analysis
See what kind of analyses the student worked on:
Example notebook script

That's it, time to go back up!


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Which skills do I need ?

This research requires writing your own computer programs

You don't have to be a skilled programmer, but a little experience with any programming language is a big plus!

Most of my research is written in Python

Examples:

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When I do research, my desktop usually looks like this

... or this

Which skills can I learn ?

  • Clinical EEG applications (sleep, epilepsy)
  • Python (programming language)
  • Signal processing (EEG, and others)
  • Computational models of neurons and networks
  • Machine learning algorithms

Contact

Whom can I contact if I'm interested?

f.vonwegner@unsw.edu.au

Frederic von Wegner / UNSW