Richard Rosch
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Our brains never stand still – neurons are constantly firing away, talking to each other through trillions of synapses. Collectively, all this chatter creates rhythms and waves of activity that can spread all the way across the human brain in mere milliseconds. In epilepsy and other neurodevelopmetnal disorders, this somehow goes wrong, and atypical brain waves of activity disrupt normal brain function, affecting cognition, behaviour and normal development.
My lab is interested in how brain waves are shaped. How do the molecules that influence synaptic function lead to abnormal brain activity? How does the brain’s network structure affect its activity patterns? How does this system change over time, especially during brain development?
To explore these questions, my team and I use interdisciplinary tools and appraoches from theoretical physics, complex systems analysis, bioengineering and biology to study whole-brain activity dynamics in diverse model systems - ranging from computer simulations to zebrafish and recordings in patients undergoing evaluation for epilepsy surgery.
Richard Rosch
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