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Ashjazadeh N, Boostani R, Ekhtiari H, Emamghoreishi M, Farrokhi M, Ghanizadeh A, Hatam G, Hadianfard H, Lotfi M, Mortazavi SMJ, Mousavi M, Montakhab A, Nili M, Razmkon A, Salehi S, Sodagar AM, Setoodeh P, Taghipour M, Torabi-Nami M, Vesal A. Operationalizing Cognitive Science and Technologies' Research and Development; the "Brain and Cognition Study Group (BCSG)" Initiative from Shiraz, Iran. Basic Clin Neurosci 2014; 5:104-16. [PMID: 25337368 PMCID: PMC4202589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Recent advances in brain and cognitive science studies have revolutionized concepts in neural dynamics, regulating mechanisms, coding systems and information processing networks which govern our function and behavior. Hidden aspects of neurological and psychiatric diseases are being understood and hopes for their treatment are emerging. Although the two comprehensive mega-projects on brain mapping are in place in the United States and Europe; the proportion of science contributed by the developing countries should not be downsized. With the granted supports from the Cognitive Sciences and Technologies Council (CSTC), Iran can take its role in research on brain and cognition further. The idea of research and development in Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (CST) is being disseminated across the country by CSTC. Towards this goal, the first Shiraz interdisciplinary meeting on CST was held on 9 January 2014 in Namazi hospital, Shiraz. CST research priorities, infrastructure development, education and promotion were among the main topics discussed during this interactive meeting. The steering committee of the first CST meeting in Shiraz decided to frame future research works within the "Brain and Cognition Study Group-Shiraz" (BCSG-Shiraz). The study group comprises scientific leaders from various allied disciplines including neuroscience, neurosurgery, neurology, psychiatry, psychology, radiology, physiology, bioengineering, biophysics, applied physics and telecommunication. As the headquarter for CST in the southern Iran, BCSG-Shiraz is determined to advocate "brain and cognition" awareness, education and research in close collaboration with CSTC. Together with CSTC, Shiraz Neuroscience Research center (SNRC) will take the initiative to cross boundaries in interdisciplinary works and multi-centric research projects within the study group.
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- Nahid Ashjazadeh
- Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,Shiraz Neuroscience Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of Bioengineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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- Iranian Cognitive Science and Technologies Council, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Neuroscience, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Shiraz Neuroscience Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,Department of Neuroscience, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of Neuroscience, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,Research Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Advanced Medical Science and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Ionizing and Non-ionizing Radiation Protection Research Center (INIRPRC), School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Shiraz Neuroscience Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Iranian Cognitive Science and Technologies Council, Tehran, Iran
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- Shiraz Neuroscience Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Shiraz Neuroscience Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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- Shiraz Neuroscience Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,Department of Neuroscience, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of Neuroscience, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,Corresponding Author: Mohammad Torabi-Nami MD, PhD, Department of Neuroscience, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Tel: +98-7112333138 / Fax: +98-711 2343848. E-mail:
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran,Academy of Medical Sciences, Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Perlin GE, Sodagar AM, Wise KD. Neural recording front-end designs for fully implantable neuroscience applications and neural prosthetic microsystems. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2008; 2006:2982-5. [PMID: 17946997 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2006.260193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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An implantable neural recording front-end has been designed in two versions. The first is a multi-channel signal-conditioning ASIC for use with any neural recording probe technology. This ASIC was implemented in a commercial 0.5 mum CMOS process, includes 16 parallel amplifier channels, and measures 2.3 mm2 The amplifiers have a gain of 59.5 dB, a high cutoff frequency at 9.1 kHz and consume 75 microW per channel. The low cutoff frequency is independently tunable on each channel to accept or reject field potentials. This chip is small enough to be chronically packaged for experiments in awake behaving animals or it can be integrated into a fully implantable neural recording microsystem. The second version of the front-end is a neural recording probe with integrated signal conditioning circuitry on the back-end implemented in a 3 microm CMOS process. This version dissipates 142 microW and includes 64 to 8 site selection, 8 per-channel amplifiers each having a gain of 50.2 dB, a tunable low cutoff frequency, and a 7 kHz upper cutoff frequency. Real-time site impedance and circuit testing has been integrated in this design.
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- G E Perlin
- Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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