Open Challenges in Systems Neuroscience

3 units

The objective of this course is to introduce advanced graduate engineering students to key challenges for the next generation of systems neuroscientists. One-half of the course will introduce students to the neural bases of canonical behavioral motifs. One-half of the course will have students identify and present a proposal for how to study an open challenge in the treatment of neurological/psychiatric disorders (e.g., dystonia, epilepsy, depression, addiction) at either circuit or system level. Grades will be assigned to correspond with performance on the written report covering an open-challenge. This course will also be open to non-engineers upon request.