Welcome to the Neuroengineering Research Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania.

We carry out engineering-based modeling and experimental studies of normal brain function with applications to understanding and treating neurological and psychiatric disease. Clinically-related studies focus on epilepsy, schizophrenia, and Parkinson’s disease, emphasizing the analysis of human and animal electrophysiology. Modeling studies use biophysical-level neural simulations to investigate processing in a variety of brain areas, including hippocampus, basal ganglia, and visual cortex. Approaches include simulation, signal analysis, machine learning, psychophysics, and animal and human electrophysiology.

Laboratory faculty are centered in the Departments of Bioengineering and Neurology. Students and postdocs can pursue graduate and undergraduate degrees in Bioengineering, Neuroscience and related fields. In addition, advanced clinical residents and fellows from Penn’s programs in Neurology and Neurosurgery can spend a research year in the lab.

The web site is organized around the individual laboratories and they can be investigated in more depth using the following links:

Faculty:

[ Leif Finkel ] [ Brian Litt ] [ Gershon Buchsbaum ] [ Dan Bogen ]

Labs of our experimental collaborators at Penn:

[ Contreras lab ] [ Kahana lab ] [ Coulter lab ] [ Dichter lab ] [ Cooper lab ] [ Gur lab ] [ Turetsky lab ]

For information regarding the Summer Program in Computational Neuroscience at The University of Pennsylvania:

[ 2008 Computational Neuroscience Summer Program ]

In addition, one can find links to the e-mail and home pages of the various people who work here, look at an overview of ongoing research projects , download recent publications , examine some of the software designed or used in our investigations, see course descriptions in the Neuroengineering curriculum , or follow a collection of neuroscience -related links.

The Neuroengineering laboratory was constructed with support from the Whitaker Foundation and the National Science Foundation . Our research is supported by a number of institutions including the National Institutes of Health , the National Science Foundation , the Office of Naval Research , and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation , as well as by private contributions. The lab was officially dedicated on 3 November 1995.