Future Of Neuroanatomy

Question 1

Brain machine interface

Answer 1

Direct communication pathway between the brain’s electrical activity and an external device

Question 2

Brain machine interface function

Answer 2

researching, mapping, assisting, augmenting, repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor function

Question 3

CRISPR-Cas9

Answer 3

• repeats of genetic info that some bacterial species use as an antiviral system
• Cas9: molecular scissors that cut DNA at a location specified by a guide RNA

Question 4

CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing

Answer 4

• disrupt: cut DNA causing inactivation or deletion
• correct or insert: addition or fixing a gene

Question 5

Artificial intelligence

Answer 5

• Quality of intelligence being introduced into a machine
• explicitly programmed, with a rules based system

Question 6

Machine learning

Answer 6

• Introducing intelligence into a machine without explicit programming
• algorithm performance improves as exposed to more data over time

Question 7

Deep learning

Answer 7

Artificial neural network with multiple layers between input and output