Anyone here familar with computational neuroscience ?

Anyone here familar with computational neuroscience ?
I am just starting and I feel truly overwhelmed.
I switched from computer engineering and I don't know where to start.

Not really. Your should have switched to math.

Why not go for a more general computation major and then consider something like neuroscience down the line? You're never going to get a deep understanding of signal processing from a specialist program like that, there simply isn't time

EEG a shit. Direct neural interfaces or GTFO

If 1 guy volunteered to have an EEG implanted under his skull, and recorded his brain activity continuously for an entire year, could that data be used as a baseline to more accurately interpret EEG info that's taken over the skull?

have they thought about doing something like this? why havn't they done it yet? If direct neural interfaces degrade and dissolve over time, why can't can we make an EEG that harmlessly dissolves in the human body so this experiment could be done with only 1 invasive procedure.

alternatively, could you entirely replace all the bone of a human skull with a synthetic version with an EEG built in?

That'd be a bitch and a half to do. It would require quite a lot of advancement in bio-compatibility, because you REALLY don't want the guy's body to start inflaming and swelling around the thing holding his brain in place.

if you encapsulate the circuity, then how is it any different from an ordinary synthetic bone graft?

Those sometimes cause inflammation or swelling and are occasionally rejected by the body, requiring medication or further surgery to rectify the problem. That's not the biggest deal when you're talking about a bone graft in a limb or the pelvis or even non-cranial skull, but when it's involving the majority of the surface of brain, any problem is a big problem.

What would you use that baseline against? Thats not how it would work user. Sure, you'd get some interesting data, but there are way too many factors that influence brain activity for that data to be of any use. You would need to record all life events down to the hour throughout that time period. Also, I think it would give more accurate readings, but I doubt t its any better to justify doing such a procedure. I haven't seen any animal models that use that procedure for research.

too late for that now. I don't need a huge signal processing knowledge. I have enough background from my computer engineering major.
I don't know what to study now and what to focus on

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No. EEG is shit. Nothing can change this except maybe putting in so many electrodes that it's now a direct neural interface

I use 128 electrods

>too late for that now
sunk cost fallacy
what is the real reason you are in this program? do you have any particular ambition for what you'd like to pursue after you graduate? because if it's not a neuroscience graduate program or a generic office job, you've made a shitty choice

I'm following a PhD. I know I know before starting research i should already know a lot. I spent about a year exploring choices but I couldn't find anything that would interest me to go on. So I just picked something to keep me busy.

This is how you fail at academics

I am afraid I will fail at life not just academics

look if you're floundering like this in a PhD program you should call it quits and work a real job for awhile until you find something you actually like. Universities take aimless students like you, chew them up, and spit them out. Grad work is fucking miserable and the only thing that gets you through it is a belief in what you're doing. And now more than ever your hopes of an academic job after you do all that work are slim.

what should I do with my life then

The get out. EEG a shit, direct neural interface or GTFO

why do you keep saying that

It's a lot easier to figure that out if you're living in the real world. Academics are turning into a real shitshow, it's not the comfortable existence itused to be. If you decide you want to try again, university will still be there, and you'll be more motivated because you'll know what you want.

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Current PhD student here, I definitely agree that aimless students don't make it out. They'll notice whether or not you have direction and reject your admission. I am still rotating labs at the moment, but its true that graduate work is miserable, especially if you don't have genuine interest in your research or science. Research is painfully slow and you need perseverance to make it through. Its a frugal lifestyle that you put yourself through for 4-5+ years.

EEG is for something else. It's still usefull.

Start with what you know about logic gates and compare them to neurons.

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RIP m8

yeah, being annoying as fuck and a good way to shit up some hours of your life

You panicked. Panicking is how you fail at life.

i do panick true

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It's autism just don't respond.

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why did you switch from comp engineering?

Are you really having trouble with the neuroscience? Or are you just disinterested?

>Anyone here familar with computational neuroscience ?

oh, you have no idea.

I think disinterested