Week 1 : Logistics in rodent experiments: Personal Protective Equipment, Procurement and quarantine of laboratory animals, Husbandry and Handling of rodents, Breeding and Care of Rats and Mice.
Week 2 : Rodents for Neural experiments: Species of rodents used in neural experiments, Rodent identification, and selection for experiments
Week 3: Rodent Neural Sensors and Data acquisition systems, Epileptic Seizure Detection and Classification
Week 4 : Microbial and Health monitoring for chronic neural experiments.
Week 5 : Neural system models in rodents – Epilepsy, Stroke, Motor movements, Parkinsonian models and application of rodent neural experiments, Microfabrication for neural engineering, PVD, CVD, Lithography, Etching
Week 6 : Behavioral setups for neural experiments, Different Brain-Computer Interfaces, Micro Electrode Array
Week 7 : Rodent Micro Neurosurgery I: Rodent anesthesia techniques, Introduction, Neuroanatomy – Applied and Comparative (rodent /monkey/ human) Equipments, Sterility and sterilization, Craniotomy, Microneurosurgical instruments and techniques, Sensor implantation and head mounting techniques, Closure techniques and challenges, Implant care for chronic recordings
Week 8 : Rodent Micro Neurosurgery II: Spinal anatomy, Spinal cord sensors and implantation surgeries, Peripheral neural anatomy, Peripheral neural surgeries, Peripheral neural sensors, and implantation, Different neural experiments as an example, Recovery process, Biological Basis of Contemporary Neural Networks and Neural Substrates for Contemporary Neural Networks
Week 9 : Rodent neuropathology: Euthanasia and Brain harvesting techniques. Neuropathological processing of the harvested brain, Electronic System Development for neural experiments
Week 10 : Challenges in neural signals and synchronization of behaviors, Brain Stimulation: Introduction and Applications, Experimental Protocol for Neural Experiments
Week 11 : Neural signal processing and post-processing, EEGLAB, ERPLAB, Event-Related Potentials: Introduction and Applications, ERP Extraction, Time-Frequency Analysis, Signal Interpretation
Week 12 : Decoding techniques and challenges, Recent Trends in Neural Engineering
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