{"id":32,"date":"2018-06-12T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2018-09-11T16:05:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T20:05:55","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Current treatment techniques for neural diseases and disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s, schizophrenia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism etc. are invasive. We are building critical tools that can non-invasively activate or block any part of the brain along studying their individual roles in functional networks. By doing this, full potential of neural modulation for neural disease treatment and alteration of, for example, addictive behaviors will be explored.<\/p>\n<p>This involves\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csee.umbc.edu\/~choa\/Research06.html\">electroencephalography (EEG)<\/a>\u00a0signal processing for cortical theory extraction and using them for robot arm control,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csee.umbc.edu\/~choa\/Research06.html\">neuron optical and ultrasonic excitation<\/a><\/u>, and\u00a0<u>energy generations<\/u>\u00a0and other\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umbc.edu\/ieee\/\">IEEE student branch<\/a><\/u>\u00a0related activities.<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-275 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/novel_tms_rodent.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Our improved Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation test result: right hind limb moves<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-275 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/06\/nfs_presentation_small_resized.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(video courtesy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lobolab.org\/\">Dr. Lobo&#8217;s Lab<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In the past, we\u00a0focused on\u00a0opto-electronics, which include\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csee.umbc.edu\/~choa\/Research01.html\">MOCVD growth<\/a><\/u>,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csee.umbc.edu\/~choa\/Research02.html\">near-infrared laser and detector<\/a><\/u>,\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csee.umbc.edu\/~choa\/Research03.html\">mid-infrared laser<\/a><\/u>\u00a0and their applications on\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csee.umbc.edu\/~choa\/Research04.html\">chemical sensing<\/a><\/u><u>.<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current treatment techniques for neural diseases and disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s, schizophrenia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism etc. are invasive. We are building critical tools that can non-invasively activate or block any part of the brain along studying their individual roles in functional networks. By doing this, full potential of neural modulation for neural disease &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cs.umbc.edu\/choalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}