Posts by Seung Woo Lee, PhD
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Magnetic Stimulation of Visual Cortex Creates More Focal Neural Activity
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have demonstrated in vivo that magnetically stimulating the cortex with an implanted micro-coil creates more spatially confined neural activity than electric stimulation does, suggesting a way to improve on conventional cortical prostheses.
Biography
Seungwoo Lee, PhD is assistant professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School, and assistant investigator in the Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received the B.S. degree in school of electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea, in 2003. He received the Ph.D. degree in the school of electrical engineering and computer science from the Seoul National University, in 2010. He trained as a Research Fellow from 2011 to 2015 in Dr. Fried lab in Department of Neurosurgery at Mass General and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Dr. Lee has extensive experience in neural prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces, retinal implants, cochlear implants, deep brain stimulation, and electrical engineering. His research interests include development of chronic implantable electronic system (BioMEMs and Bioelectronics) as well as effective electric/magnetic neural stimulation strategy (Neurophysiology) for neuroscience research and neural prosthesis.
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