At the risk of turning this blog into a place where I mostly post things I might want to find later, here are some interviews I did a few years ago with some friends when I was in grad school at the University of California, San Diego. We produced them because interviews can be quite … More Interviews with cognitive scientists
Looking for a clinical data science project? Here are some free data sets that might be of use (in no particular order): Human Physiological and Neuroimaging Data Cam-CAN (Cambridge Centre for Ageing Neuroscience) dataset: fMRI, MRI, MEG, and behavioral human neurodata on people of various ages (i.e., cross-sectional data) Physionet: A wide array of clinically relevant … More Public clinical data science data sets
I had the pleasure of hearing the Mayo Clinic’s Greg Worrell give a talk on epilepsy diagnostics as part of the 2016 Anne & Max Tanenbaum Symposium on the Frontiers of Science today. Below are some slides from his talk that I’m posting mostly for my own later reference (but maybe they’re useful to you … More Slides from Greg Worrell presentation on spatial and temporal prediction in epilepsy
Everyone should have at least one joke memorized for emergency situations. One poem is probably worth burning into your brain as well for the occasional apropos moment. For you neurogeeks out there, perhaps this could do the trick: The Brain — is wider than the Sky — For — put them side by side — … More Emily Dickinson on Brains
Massive increases in the amount of data scientists are able to acquire and analyze over the past two decades have driven the development of new statistical tools that can better deal with the challenges of “big data.” One such set of tools is ways of controlling the “false discovery rate” (FDR) in a set of … More Four things you might not (but should know) about false discovery rate control
Last night, I attended NeuroTechTO’s December meeting and was delighted to see a packed house full of people interested in learning how to use emerging human neuroscience technologies to improve health and to create new ways of interacting with the world. As part of the meeting, one of the organizers, Sydney Swaine-Simon, gave a … More Some vintage EEG advertisements
As the fall semester gets underway, I’m reminded of a bit of teaching inspiration I read in the letters pages of Science magazine many moons ago. The author was responding to an article about designing effective science classes. Unfortunately, I no longer have his/her letter but the gist of it was that the author thought … More Teaching what we don’t know
The electroencephalogram (EEG) is one of the most popular measures of human brain function and is currently the most clinically utilized. The EEG primarily reflects the synaptic activity of patches of neocortical pyramidal cells (at minimum probably around the order of 25 mm2–(Baillet, Mosher, & Leahy, 2001) and its most salient feature is intermittent oscillations … More Towards an Atlas of Human Neocortical Oscillations
