Alexey Ossadtchi

Article: «Representational dissimilarity component analysis (ReDisCA)».
Authors: Alexey Ossadtchi, Ilya Semyonkov, Anna Zhuravleva, Vladimir Kozunov, Oleg Serikov, Ekaterina Voloshina.

The article "Short-term meditation training alters brain activity and sympathetic responses at rest, but not during meditation" was published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Authors: Anna Rusinova, Maria Volodina, Alexei Ossadtchi.

In the spring of 2023, the fifth strategic project of the Priority 2030 programme, 'Human Brain Resilience: Neurocognitive Technologies for Adaptation, Learning, Development and Rehabilitation in a Changing Environment,' was launched at HSE University. The strategic project brings together researchers from all campuses of HSE University. In her interview with the HSE News Service, Olga Dragoy, head of the strategic project and Director of the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, shares an overview of the advanced technologies neuroscientists are creating today, the underlying inspiration driving these efforts, and the operational dynamics of interdisciplinary applied projects.

The topic of the lecture: Mathematical methods in brain research: from neuroimaging to expanding human abilities.

The startup is involved in developing the next generation of EEG-based biofeedback technology (neurofeedback).

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The article "PSIICOS projection optimality for EEG and MEG based functional coupling detection" was published in the journal NeuroImage.

Authors: Dmitrii Altukhov, Daria Kleeva, Alexei Ossadtchi.

Alexey spoke about invasive and non-invasive interfaces, brain empowerment and what diseases will be able to treat in the future.

New methods of brain mapping will make it easier to identify the cortex areas responsible for speech functions and to perform operations on the brain, as well as reduce the likelihood of damage to important areas. In addition, this will allow for more frequent use of non-invasive methods for restoring speech and other functions lost due to injuries and illnesses.

HSE News Service spoke to Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, Head of the Centre for Cognition and Decision Making at HSE University, Anna Shestakova about the achievements and goals of the new HSE University’s strategic project ‘Human Brain Resilience: Neurocognitive Technologies for Adaptation, Learning, Development, and Rehabilitation in a Changing Environment’.

On February 15, the director of the Center for Bioelectrical Interfaces, Alexey Ossadtchi, gave a lecture at a scientific seminar on artificial intelligence with the topic "Data analysis methods for studying brain activity in closed-loop paradigms.

Opponent: Sergey Shishkin, MSPU.

The 2nd Congress of Young Scientists was held at the Sirius Park of Science and Art in Sochi. HSE University representatives took an active part in it, working at various venues where a wide range of topics were discussed—from university development to machine learning and scientific cinema.

The program addressed the following questions:
How will neurotechnology change our near future?
What areas of human activity will become the drivers of development?
What obstacles are standing in the way of neurotechnology development?
How are neurotechnologies changing modern medicine?

Alexey Ossadtchi, PhD, director of the Center for Bioelectrical Neurointerfaces at the Higher School of Economics, presented a report on modern approaches in signal decoding in speech prostheses with a small number of implantable electrodes.

Alexey Voskoboynikov, trainee researcher of the Center for Bioelectrical Interfaces of the HSE, researcher of the Laboratory of Medical Neurointerfaces and Artificial Intelligence, FMBA CMNT, discussed speech zone mapping, which is one of the most important stages of neurosurgical intervention in the cerebral cortex.

Alexei Osadtchi discussed progress in creating bionic prostheses capable of reading nerve signals.

The issue of Marina Astvatsaturyan's program "Medicine in Context" with Alexey is devoted to the topic of magnetoencephalography and its application in medicine and brain research.

On October 05, 2022 at the Department of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence, the preliminary defense of the doctoral dissertation "Methods for processing, decoding and interpretation of electrophysiological activity of the brain for problems of diagnosis, neurorehabilitation and therapy of neurocognitive disorders" by Alexey Ossadtchi was held.

The Federal Brain and Neural Technology Centre at the Federal Medical and Biological Agency is launching the Laboratory of Medical Neural Interfaces and Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Applications, which has been created by employees of HSE University. Read below to find out about the Laboratory and its objectives.

Researchers from the HSE University Centre for Bioelectric Interfaces have designed a new method for detecting diagnostic markers of epilepsy, called interictal spikes, using EEG and MEG. Capable of accounting for various errors and artefacts, this method constitutes a valuable addition to the arsenal of means for automatic analysis of electrophysiological recordings in epilepsy patients, especially when the data are noisy. Precise localisation of epileptogenic cortical structures can enhance the effectiveness of neurosurgical interventions. The study was published in the Journal of Neural Engineering.

Topic: "ECoG and MEG for Speech Display and Decoding and Closed Loop Motor Interfaces"

A competition for the Russian Postdoc Program is currently open at HSE. You can apply for a postdoc position until May 20, 2022.
As part of the competition, a vacancy for a postdoc (researcher) at the Center for Bioelectric Interfaces is open.

On March 21, there was a working meeting of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and AIRI (airi.net). Alexey Osadtchi presented a report on the tasks of the laboratory and future research.

Alexey Ossadtchi told about team's success and what results scientists expect in the near future.

This year the 3d “Applied Cognitive Science” Summer School was held by our Lab. Unfortunately, we were forced to meet via online because of pandemic situation. Nonetheless, these conditions did not affect on shool program: it was intense and engaging.

Russian scientists have proposed a new algorithm for automatic decoding and interpreting the decoder weights, which can be used both in brain-computer interfaces and in fundamental research. The results ofthe study were published in the Journal of Neural Engineering.

Researchers from the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience have proposed a new method to process magnetoencephalography (MEG) data, which helps find cortical activation areas with higher precision. The method can be used in both basic research and clinical practice to diagnose a wide range of neurological disorders and to prepare patients for brain surgery. The paper describing the algorithm was published in the journal NeuroImage.

Today, neuroscience and robotics are developing hand in hand. Mikhail Lebedev, Academic Supervisor at HSE University’s Centre for Bioelectric Interfaces, spoke about how studying the brain inspires the development of robots.

The virtual hand is capable of tactile perception

We have made four poster presentations at OHBM-2019, a major neuroscience conference held in Rome and sponsored by the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

CBI Director Prof. Alex Ossadtchi has made a presentation at MEG Nord 2019 to have taken place May 8-10, in Jyväskylä, Finland.

On April 16, 2019, Alex Ossadtchi and Mikhail Lebedev have made a keynote speech at the Skolkovo Robotics 2019 event. Nickolay Smetanin has also demoed a neurointerface designed at the CBI to control an exoskeleton (made by the Russian company ExoAtlet).

Russia-24 aired a story in which Alex Ossadtchi, Ksenia Volkova, Nickolay Smetanin, Alexander Belyayev and Alexandra Kuznetsova talk about the CBI and its research: an exoskeleton-controlling neurointerface, myographic interface to control a hand avatar and the main project to develop an invasive neurointerface to be used in clinical settings.

At the international symposium ExoRehab Spotlights 2018 held on December 5 in Moscow, researchers of the Center for Bioelectric Interfaces Nikolai Smetanin, Aleksandra Kuznetsova and Alexei Ossadtchi presented Russia's first EEG-based neural interface that uses lower limb motor imagery for exoskeleton control. Alexei Ossadtchi also made a presentation "BCI for walk decoding". This work has been a collaboration with the Russian company ExoAtlet.

Megagrant #14.641.31.0003 "Bi-directional ECoG BCIs for contol, stimulation and communication". Lead scentist: Mikhail Lebedev.

Today marks the successful completion of the first year of our research project funded by Megagrant #14.641.31.0003 "Bi-directional ECoG BCIs for control, stimulation and communication" (lead scientist: Mikhail Lebedev).

Russian ministry of Education and Science Government grant ag. No 14.641.31.0003, Megagrant to Mikhail Lebedev.

Alexei Ossadtchi made presentation "Towards zero-latency neurofeedback" about the algorithms developing in our Center. Mikhail Lebedev gave a talk "Decoding, but what?" about the invasive neurointerfaces. Moreover, our research assistants Julia Nurislamova, Ignatii Dubishkin and Alexander Belyaev won prizes for best posters.