Many of our Biomedical Engineering students and faculty took part in the Society for Neuroscience 2018 meeting on November 3-7 in San Diego, California. BME affiliated presentations included:

• 063.17 - A novel method for repeatable tap tests in a rodent model of hydrocephalus. D. L. POETA, T. K. JACOBSON, A. IOANNOU, P. M. KLINGE, R. D. BURWELL
• 303.14 - Deconstructing the role of interneurons in spinal sensory processing. A. ALLAWALA, C. J. BLACK, C. Y. SAAB, D. BORTON
• 310.03 - Investigating kinesthesia in the primate somatosensory cortex. R. DARIE, D. A. BORTON
• 310.04 - Motor cortical correlates of obstacle avoidance during locomotion in non-human primates. D. Y. XING, D. A. BORTON
• 329.16 - Control of perirhinal-dependent novelty exploration in rats by optogenetic modulation of prefrontal cortex. A. E. IOANNOU, D. L. POETA, R. D. BURWELL
• 389.02 - A multi-modal approach to elucidate the spinal circuits mediating tactile allodynia. C. BLACK, A. ALLAWALA, R. THORPE, C. Y. SAAB, S. R. JONES, D. A. BORTON
• 389.03 - Characterization of circuit mechanisms underlying discriminatory EEG neural markers for pain perception in somatosensory cortex. R. THORPE, C. J. BLACK, S. A. NEYMOTIN, C. Y. SAAB, D. A. BORTON, S. R. JONES
• 394.22 - Exploring neural population dynamics in auditory processing from the macaque superior temporal gyrus. J. LEE, L. LYNCH, D. M. BRANDMAN, A. NURMIKKO
• 403.08. Multiple grasp types can be reliably decoded from the precentral gyrus of people with ALS with progressive levels of motor impairment. K. T. HUANG, D. M. BRANDMAN, J. SAAB, V. CHAVAKULA, C. E. VARGAS-IRWIN, S. E. FASOLI, C. H. BLABE, B. L. SORICE, B. JAROSIEWICZ, J. P. DONOGHUE, J. M. HENDERSON, K. V. SHENOY, L. R. HOCHBERG
• 404.08 - Representation of face, head and leg movements in “arm/hand” area of human motor cortex. F. WILLETT, P. REZAII, L. R. HOCHBERG, J. M. HENDERSON, K. V. SHENOY
• 590.07 - Tracking longitudinal changes in sleep features in an intracortical brain-computer interface user with tetraplegia. D. J. THENGONE, T. HOSMAN, J. SAAB, J. D. SIMERAL, L. R. HOCHBERG
• 590.08 - Single unit activity in middle frontal gyrus of a person with tetraplegia reveals sensory specific modulation. K. G. WILCOXEN, C. E. VARGAS-IRWIN, J. B. HYNES, T. HOSMAN, J. SAAB, B. FRANCO, J. KELEMAN, E. N. ESKANDAR, J. P. DONOGHUE, L. R. HOCHBERG
• 672.05 - Approaching a 24/7 at-home Braingate BCI system through design thinking, user-centered design and agile development. J. R. BREA, B. E. SHANAHAN, J. SAAB, T. HOSMAN, J. D. SIMERAL, L. R. HOCHBERG
• 672.06 - Closed-loop BCI simulation through replay of recorded neural signals. J. N. KELEMEN, D. MILSTEIN, L. R. HOCHBERG, D. M. BRANDMAN, J. D. SIMERAL
• 672.07. Comparison of decoding accuracy: Retrospectively trained recurrent neural network and Kalman vs the same-day Kalman decoder. T. HOSMAN, M. VILELA, J. SAAB, C. D. HEELAN, D. BRANDMAN, J. D. SIMERAL, L. R. HOCHBERG
• 672.08 - Processing thousands of full-broadband neural channels in real-time on a mobile platform. C. D. HEELAN, B. E. SHANAHAN, L. R. HOCHBERG, A. V. NURMIKKO, J. D. SIMERAL
• 684.15. Electrophysiological markers of distress in neuropsychiatric illness. E. MATTESON, N. R. PROVENZA, C. LOHMAN, A. BARRIOS-ANDERSON, N. MCLAUGHLIN, D. A. BORTON
• 697.30 - Decision related signals at single-neuron resolution in human motor cortex. S. N. FLESHER, C. CHANDRASEKARAN, F. R. WILLETT, S. D. STAVISKY, M. WANG, P. G. REZAII, L. R. HOCHBERG, J. M. HENDERSON, K. V. SHENOY
• 700.17. A transdural very-near field wireless power and data link for implantable neural interfaces. M. P. POWELL, D. A. BORTON
• 720.03 - Single neuron population dynamics in dorsal motor cortex during human speech. S. D. STAVISKY, F. R. WILLETT, B. A. MURPHY, P. REZAII, W. D. MEMBERG, B. WALTER, J. A. SWEET, J. P. MILLER, R. F. KIRSCH, L. R. HOCHBERG, A. B. AJIBOYE, K. V. SHENOY, J. M. HENDERSON
• 769.12. An engineered in vitro model of foreign-body response to chronic neural implants. E. ATHERTON, A. B. ALLAWALA, M. P. POWELL, D. HOFFMAN-KIM, D. A. BORTON