Excited to share (and participate in) the 2nd #CedarsSinai & #Caltech Joint Symposium on Computational & Experimental Neuroscience! 🧠

Agenda includes talks on #CircuitNeuroscience #BMI #ComputationalNeuroscience #BrainInjury #Repair across institutions; registration code below

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More in the full paper!
Huge thanks to @drmaabbasi.bsky.social and others at @cedarssinai.bsky.social for making this work possible!
#Neuroscience #StrokeResearch #BMI #BCI #BrainRecovery

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And when PCs were included in the decoder?
No difference in BMI task performance- suggesting flexibility and integration of PCs in cerebellar BMI control.
#BrainPlasticity #BMIResearch

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For #Cerebellum aficionados: yes, we looked at #PurkinjeCells (PCs).
Indirect PCs showed learning-related modulation, and interaction timescales with decoder units and M1 matched other cerebellar units.
#Electrophysiology #Neurocircuits

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We then asked: what predicts cerebellar BMI activity?
Turns out, local cerebellar and motor cortical indirect activity predicted direct decoder activity across time lags- altered post-stroke, hinting at network-level compensation.
#NeuralDynamics #SystemsNeuroscience

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Cerebellar “direct” decoder units showed strong task-related modulation.
With learning, indirect cerebellar units also became task-modulated- pointing to distributed #plasticity across the circuit.
#MotorLearning #NeuralPlasticity

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Crucially, cerebellar BMI control remained feasible even when upper-limb impairments persisted post-#stroke - highlighting its translational potential for #neurorehab and #neuroprosthetics. 💡
#StrokeRecovery #BrainComputerInterface

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We first compared cerebellar #BMI control with #MotorCortex (M1)-driven BMI.
Performance was on par.
And, BMI control from the cerebellum was equally effective in healthy vs. stroke brains.
#BCI #Neuroprosthetics

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Excited to share our new paper in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social , led by grad student @rohitrangwani.bsky.social ! 🧠🤖
We show that robust #BrainMachineInterface (#BMI) control is possible using #cerebellar activity- even in a #stroke-affected brain.
#Neuroscience
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Excited to present our long-term ECoG BCI control study in two participants. Fantastic teamwork all around!

Sampling representational plasticity of simple imagined movements across days enables long-term neuroprosthetic control.

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...