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Decoding the Mind: Uncovering Neural Mechanisms of Health and Disease using Machine Learning

June 11, 2024

Everything you feel, think, and do is the result of interactions between millions of cells in your brain. Eric Yttri and his lab at CMU are applying new tools to understand how neurons across different brain areas interact to orchestrate decisions and movement. To aid this study, they have developed new analysis platforms to extract a range of behaviors from video and link them to the complex neural dynamics they measure. With these techniques and insights in hand, they are developing new approaches to combating diseases like stroke, Parkinson’s, and OCD.

Speakers Veronica Hinman and Eric Yttri

Watch the recording of the first Threads of Inquiry webinar: Veronica Hinman, head of the department of biological sciences and Eric Yttri, assistant professor of biological sciences.