The Emergence of Neurotechnologies of the Future

February, 14

10:00–11:30

Neurotechnologies in Healthcare

World Trade Center Moscow, entrance No. 4, 1st floor, conference hall No. 2. Gazprombank

Technological progress has led to the creation of an entire myriad of technologies that aim to treat and rehabilitate neurological patients. Today, many neuro-technologies have found applications in medicine and have begun to be successfully introduced in domestic healthcare. Thus, over the last decade mechano-therapeutic rehabilitation devices (including robotic devices) have convincingly proven their effectiveness in restoring a patient’s movement and ability to walk. Virtual reality technologies that provide partial and complete immersion in a computer-generated space have become especially popular. Neural interface technologies (brain-computer interfaces) have gained serious and large-scale development over the past decade. Which neuro-technologies are the most promising in the present and in the near future? What lies ahead for us when various neuro-technologies reach critical mass and inevitably begin to hybridize with one another? What will the neural interface of the future look like? Will we move from the correction of neuro-pathologies to the augmentation of human capabilities? Will neural interfaces connect individuals into an ‘Internet of Brains’? Will it be possible to decode and reconstruct speech, thoughts, and feelings from brain activity? Will we understand the causes of neurodegenerative diseases and learn how to treat them?

Moderator:

Head, Federal Medical-Biological Agency of the Russian Federation

Panellists:

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Motorica

Rector, Samara State Medical University

General Director, Lopukhin Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency

Chief Freelance Neurologist, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation; Professor of the Department of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Medical Genetics, N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Head of the Laboratory of Neuroprosthetics, St. Petersburg State University; Head of Neurobiology, Sirius University of Science and Technology

Leading Research Fellow, AIRI Institute of Artificial Intelligence; Director, Centre for Bioelectric Interfaces, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Professor, Vladimir Zelman Center for Neurobiology and Neurorehabilitation, Skoltech

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