The Exec Team
The names of the DNC outreach chairs
What are Raghad & Leyla?
The intersection between engineering and the nervous system in order to monitor, analyze, or modulate the brain/nervous system
What is neurotech?
What is the name of the structure that ...
Sends signals away towards other neurons or muscles
Is typically wrapped in myelin
What is the axon?
Arguably the most difficult engineering major
What is electrical engineering?
What are the names of our consulting co-leads?
An example of a non-invasive BCI (brain computer interface)
What is an EEG? What is an fNIR?
The stage of an action potential where...
Threshold met
More Na+ channels open
Rapid depolarization
Action potential, electrical impulse being sent down the axon
What is depolarization?
The component of a circuit that limits the amount of current flowing through and is measured in ohms
What is a resistor?
What our DNC president is majoring in
What is neuroscience?
A non-invasive method of stimulation that involves the administration of magnetic pulses; is usually used in psychiatry
What is TMS?
The potential (voltage) at which the electrical force and opposing chemical force driving an ion's movement are equal
What is the Nernst potential?
The type of circuit that involves both ends of components being connected by the same nodes
What is a parallel circuit?
The number of juniors in our exec
What is two?
A device that involves the following process:
Microphone → speech processor (selects sounds) → transmitter (convert signals to electrical impulses) + receiver/stimulator → electrode array (sends impulses to regions of the auditory nerve)
What is a cochlear implant?
The three different neuron structures we covered in GBM
What are bipolar, unipolar, and pseudopolar neurons?
The circuit component that represents the ion channels within the membrane
The city our DNC treasurer is from
What is London?
Electrocorticography (ECoG) and Stereo EEGs (sEEG) are both examples of this
What is an intracranial EEG?
The resting potential of the neuron
What is -70 mv?
The name of the model that is...
Used to simulate the initiation and propagation of action potentials
Helpful for understanding how different ion channels work
What is the Hodgkin-Huxley Model?