Who we are
We are a group of young (most of us) scientists and students interested in the human brain electrophysiology, neurodegenerative diseases, signal processing, artificial intelligence and how it all can be connected. Our team is spread across two institutions - International Clinical Research Center at St. Anne's University Hospital and Institute of Scientific Instruments at Academy of Sciences. Located in Brno, Czechia, with a close connection to our collaborators, colleagues and friends around the globe.
Our mission
Our endeavor is pushing forward the knowledge about epilepsy and brain. We strive to enhance clinical care by developing cutting edge signal processing tools and AI assisted diagnostics. By providing clinical staff with such tools we hope to lower the costs of medical treatment and improve the well-being of patients suffering from epilepsy. Our neuroscience research is aimed at general principles of human brain electrophysiology, with a focus on unveiling the processes behind memory encoding and retrieval in humans. We believe this research will broaden the understanding of the human brain and could pave the way to neuroprosthetics for patients with memory deficits. And who knows, maybe one day, our work will help to solve one of the greatest mysteries and we will finally know “what the hell is going on in our heads”.
Our research
Our research is primarily focused on work with patients suffering from pharmacoresistant epilepsy. These patients undergo implantation of intracranial electrodes directly into brain tissue which allows us to precisely measure electrical brain activity at the given site of the brain.
In clinical neurology research we use signal processing tools and machine learning techniques to localize epileptogenic tissue and predict surgical outcome for patients who are candidates for resective surgery of epileptogenic tissue.
The presence of intracranial electrodes in the brain also allows us to study general electrophysiology of the brain. To do this we ask our patients to perform simple computer tasks. We subsequently process the recorded electrophysiological signals to study the reaction of the brain to cognitive processing and the process of memory formation and retrieval.