Newsletter #10

Goals, challenges and horizons of spike sorting

Prof. Christophe Pouzat at NeuroMat's training on spike sorting, at the University of São Paulo, November, 2014. Available at Wikimedia Commons. How do we distinguish the activity of one or more neurons in a set of recorded neural activity? How do we assign spikes to different neurons? What mathematical, computational tools are available to sort spikes? These questions, among others, informed a three-day-long training on spike sorting that FAPESP's Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (CEPID NeuroMat) hosted in São Paulo at the end of November (25-27), with Prof. Christian Pouzat, a researcher of the Applied Maths Laboratory of the Paris-Descartes University and a specialist in spike sorting.

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Last NeuroMat scientific publications

• Bertola, L., Mota, N. B., Copelli, M., Rivero, T., Diniz, B. S., Romano-Silva, M. A., Ribeiro, S. and Malloy-Diniz, L. F. (2014). Graph analysis of verbal fluency test discriminate between patients with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment and normal elderly controls. Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 6.

• Duarte, A., and Ost, G. (2014). A model for neural activity in the absence of external stimuli. arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6086.

• Ribeiro, S. (2014). The onset of data-driven mental archeology. Frontiers in neuroscience, 8.

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NeuroMat in the media

• Prof. Sidarta Ribeiro spreads neuroscience - William Melo, Revista Circuito, 11/14/2014.

• NeuroMat offers training on spike sorting - Revista Mente e Cérebro, 11/2014.

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• NeuroMat develops an open-source software for the management of neuroscience experimental data

• NeuroMat releases report of first-year activities

Newsletter #8

• NeuroMat researcher develops Bayesian models to make sense of brain patterns in EEGs

• The challenges of making news reports on cutting-edge, ongoing science

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