As researchers develop new non-invasive direct-to-consumer technologies that read and stimulate the brain, society must consider the appropriate uses of such devices. Will these brain technologies eventually allow enhancement of abilities beyond human capabilities? In what settings are people using these devices outside the purview of researchers or clinicians? Should consumers be allowed to ‘hack’ their own brain in order to improve performance?

To explore these challenges and the ethical issues raised by advances in do-it-yourself (DIY) neurotechnology, the Emerging Issues Task Force of the International Neuroethics Society organized a virtual panel discussion. The panel discussed neurotechnologies such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and electroencephalogram (EEG) headsets and their ability to change the way we understand and alter our brains. Particular attention will be given to the use of neurotechnology by everyday people and the implications this has for regulatory oversight and citizen neuroscience. 

Panelists included:

• Marcello Ienca, ETH Zurich
• Karola Kreitmair, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Anna Wexler, University of Pennsylvania
• Ishan Dasgupta, University of Washington (moderator)

This module covers many of the types of non-invasive neurotech and neuroimaging devices including Electroencephalography (EEG), Electromyography (EMG), Electroneurography (ENG), Magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNRIs), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and Computed Tomography

An introduction to data management, manipulation, visualization, and analysis for neuroscience. Students will learn scientific programming in Python, and use this to work with example data from areas such as cognitive-behavioral research, single-cell recording, EEG, and structural and functional MRI. Basic signal processing techniques including filtering are covered. The course includes a Jupyter Notebook and video tutorials.

Hierarchical Event Descriptors (HED) fill a major gap in the neuroinformatics standards toolkit, namely the specification of the nature(s) of events and time-limited conditions recorded as having occurred during time series recordings (EEG, MEG, iEEG, fMRI, etc.). We, the HED Working Group, propose a half-day online INCF workshop on the need for, structure of, tools for, and use of HED annotation to prepare neuroimaging time series data for storing, sharing, and advanced analysis. 

Lecture on functional brain parcellations and a set of tutorials on bootstrap agregation of stable clusters (BASC) for fMRI brain parcellation which were part of the 2019 Neurohackademy, a 2-week hands-on summer institute in neuroimaging and data science held at the University of Washington eScience Institute.

Neuronify is an educational tool meant to create intuition for how neurons and neural networks behave. You can use it to combine neurons with different connections, just like the ones we have in our brain, and explore how changes on single cells lead to behavioral changes in important networks. Neuronify is based on an integrate-and-fire model of neurons. This is one of the simplest models of neurons that exist. It focuses on the spike timing of a neuron and ignores the details of the action potential dynamics. These neurons are modeled as simple RC circuits. When the membrane potential is above a certain threshold, a spike is generated and the voltage is reset to its resting potential. This spike then signals other neurons through its synapses.

Neuronify aims to provide a low entry point to simulation-based neuroscience.

Overview of the content for Day 1 of this course.

Overview of Day 2 of this course.

Best practices: the tips and tricks on how to get your Miniscope to work and how to get your experiments off the ground.

"Faster & more sensitive imaging with the MiniFAST" was presented by Caleb Kemere at the 2021 Virtual Miniscope Workshop as part of a series of talks by leading Miniscope users and developers.

"Balancing size & function in compact miniscopes" was presented by Tycho Hoogland at the 2021 Virtual Miniscope Workshop as part of a series of talks by leading Miniscope users and developers.

"Computational imaging for miniature miniscopes" was presented by Laura Waller at the 2021 Virtual Miniscope Workshop as part of a series of talks by leading Miniscope users and developers.

"Online 1-photon vs 2-photon calcium imaging data analysis: Current developments and future plans" was presented by Andrea Giovannucci at the 2021 Virtual Miniscope Workshop as part of a series of talks by leading Miniscope users and developers.

"Ensemble fluidity supports memory flexibility during spatial reversal" was presented by William Mau at the 2021 Virtual Miniscope Workshop as part of a series of talks by leading Miniscope users and developers.

How to start processing the raw imaging data generated with a Miniscope, including developing a usable pipeline and demoing the Minion pipeline

The direction of miniature microscopes, including both MetaCell and other groups.

Overview of the content for Day 2 of this course.

Summary and closing remarks for this three-day course.

Running your own Minion session in the MetaCell cloud using jupityr notebooks

Mimicking a kernel crash, and walking through the steps to restore your inputs.