Brian Allen
[Web: http://syntheticneurobiology.org/] [Email: bdallen, followed by @media.mit.edu] [Phone: N/A]
Brian is interested in the dynamical nature of emotion. That a person can go from a state of complacency to despair at the drop of a hat is interesting from the perspective of systems neuroscience, and important from the standpoint of thinking about neurology and psychiatry, since many neural disorders are episodic in nature. He is developing the tools and experiments to do real-time analysis and neural control to make targeted, systematic study of brain dynamics possible. He's roughly equal parts from Chicago and Buffalo, having most recently worked in New York City for a couple of years for a biotech firm, and having completed his undergraduate study at Northwestern prior to that. His formal background is in physics and cognitive science, with a concentration in artificial intelligence.