Development of indigenous, cost-effective point-of-care technologies to deliver precision care for neurological and psychiatric disorders

The center of excellence is working on neuroscience, neurosurgery, and neurorobotics, finding solutions for the alarming rise of diseases like epilepsy, Parkinson’s, dystonia, chronic pain, and post-stroke rehabilitation of stroke patients. The multidisciplinary team of faculty members and medical experts are working on Real-Time BCI devices, Neurorehabilitation using Agents (Robots) for Neurophysiological and Neuropsychological rehabilitation, and Computational Neuroscience.

Ongoing activities:

• Heart-Rate Variability Based Biofeedback for Resonant Breathing
• Point of Care EEG for Neurological diagnosis
• Developing a Cognitively Adaptable Brain-Machine Interface for Stroke Rehabilitation

Faculty Members

Dr. S. Ganesh

Biological Sciences and Bioengineering

Neurobiology of disorders, stress biology, and human genetics

Dr. Arjun Ramakrishnan

Biological Sciences and Bioengineering

Systems neuroscience, decision-making, mental health, electrophysiology, EEG, cognition

Associated Faculty Members

Clinical advisors

Dr. Venkatasubramanian Ganesan

Professor of Psychiatry
NIMHANS, Bengaluru

Schizophrenia, Psychiatry, tDCS, Evolutionary Neuroscience, Auditory Hallucinations, psychopharmacology, Brain Imaging, Biological Psychiatry, Neuroplasticity, Eye Tracking

Dr. Siby Gopinath

Clinical neurologist, epileptologist, and electrophysiologist
Amrita Hospitals, Kocchi

Epilepsy, Neuroelectro physiology, Sleep medicine, Electroencephalography, Stereo-EEG (intracranial EEG)

Dr. Nilesh Kurwale

Neurosurgeon
Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune

Neurological surgery, Epilepsy monitoring, and surgery

Dr. Sujita Kar

Additional Professor
King George Medical College Lucknow

Neuromodulation, Early augmentation in psychiatric disorders, Suicide prevention, Culture bound syndrome

Association and Collaboration