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Alzheimer’s disease progresses over decades, but symptoms manifest only in the advanced stages, which makes early diagnosis and thereby, timely intervention difficult. The complexity and heterogeneity of the disease; sparse longitudinal data; and unknown relationships among factors such as disease pathology, brain structures, brain activity, and cognition present significant challenges in predicting disease progression.

Roughly 30% of epilepsy patients do not achieve alleviation of seizures using medications. Patients with drug resitant epilepsy become candidates for surgical resection of brain tissue suspected to be the seizure onset zone (SOZ).

This course was designed to provide an intuition for the fundamentals of basic machine learning models to students who have a high school level background in maths. It has over 12 hrs of lecture material along with an assignment for each lecture.

The microbiome – the collection of microbes in and on our body - plays an important role in human health. Changes in the microbiome composition have been implicated in several diseases.

Which brain regions are involved in memory processing and what are the brain activity signatures of memory? Answering this question can potentially help in developing brain stimulation techniques that enhance memory in patients suffering from memory loss, for e.