Research proposal

Requirements: Modelling brain function. Using some models in computational neuroscience, we can develop whole brain model to mimic the whole brain activity. Using the model, we can explore the difference between healthy brain and disease brain, for example.
Required skills: neural networks, dynamical systems

References:

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[2] Dimitris Vavoulis; Volko A. Straub, John A.D. Aston, Feng JF (2012). A self-organising state-space-model approach for parameter estimation in Hodgkin-Huxley-type models of single neurones PLoS Comp. Biol. Volume 8 | Issue 3 | e1002401. cover image