Assistant Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Daniel R. Kramer, MD is a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist. He joined the faculty at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in 2020 as a Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgeon treating movement disorders, epilepsy, and facial pain. He is also the co-founder of the Neural Engineering Research and Design of Colorado (NERDco) lab, jointly run with John Thompson, PhD. Our lab is interested in two foundational aspects of brain function and how aberrations result in disease states. First, our lab utilizes high density intracranial recordings (Utah arrays, Neuropixels) to understand how the human brain achieves the nearly infinite flexibility of Executive Function (EF). Executive Function describes the set of cognitive control mechanisms that allow for attention, future planning, problem solving, and abstraction. Second, at the core of many disease states, particularly movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor, are a set of critical circuits that involve the basal ganglia, the thalamus, the cerebellum, and the cortex. Our lab aims to understand the functional role the thalamus, basal ganglia, and cortex play in normal action and in disease states.
BCI Uses of High-Density Interfaces
Friday, January 31, 2025
4:05 PM - 4:20 PM EST