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EXC 1086:  BrainLinks-BrainTools

Subject Area Systems Engineering
Neurosciences
Term from 2012 to 2019
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 194657344
 
Final Report Year 2019

Final Report Abstract

The study of brain function and the clinical treatment of its pathologies, such as movement disorders and epilepsy, have greatly benefited from dedicated technical tools for the direct interaction with neuronal signals. However, a much wider spectrum of patients could benefit from the solution of scientific, medical, and technical challenges in neurotechnology. The overall scientific goal of BrainLinks-BrainTools has been to raise the bi-directional interaction between technical instruments and the brain to a new level by developing flexible yet stable, and adaptive yet robust applications of hybrid brain-machine interface systems. BrainLinks-BrainTools has been a coherent effort of basic and clinical neuroscientists, engineers, and computer scientists to exploit the activity of the brain to control implanted and external systems. BrainLinks-BrainTools is a strategic commitment of the University of Freiburg and scientists from medicine, biology, microsystems engineering, and computer science to neurotechnology, to perform outstanding research in these fields, support early career researchers, gain gender equality, and critically reflect ethics in science and technology. BrainLinks-BrainTools has been a part of an international axis of leading centers of neurotechnology and a dense network of industrial partners for training, dissemination, and translation. It has been established as a programmatic center of the University to integrate its research and training in neurotechnology, coherent in its structure and long-term in its design. BrainLinks-BrainTools successfully established the relevant structures and positions within the University of Freiburg. Scientists of BrainLinks-BrainTools successfully applied for a dedicated research building and received the top ranking from the German Science Council for its proposal of a center for Intelligent Machine Brain Interfacing technology (IMBIT), which will provide an outstanding research environment for more than 100 researchers from the area of neurotechnology. BrainLinks-BrainTools has been enormously successful on the scientific level. It generated more than 800 publications with many of them in highly ranked journals and in top-level conference proceedings of the corresponding scientific fields.

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