DIY Neuroscience, EMGs, EEGs, and Other Recordings

Explore DIY neuroscience techniques in this conference talk from Notacon 10. Dive into the world of electrically active cells, action potentials, and motor units. Learn about EMG spikerboxes, evoked potentials, and EEG recordings. Discover troubleshooting methods, impedance matching, and amplification techniques. Investigate advanced data cleaning methods, including neuromuscular blocking. Get hands-on with the EMG spikerbox from Backyard Brains and the Neurosky headset. Gain valuable insights into resources for further exploration of DIY neuroscience, EMGs, EEGs, and other recording methods.

Intro
Why do we want to do our own neuroscience?
Electrically active cell (Neuron) at
Action potentials propagate down the nerve
Action potential amplitudes do not change, but firing rate does
Motor Unit
Backyard Brains EMG spikerbox
Troubleshooting
Evoked potentials (or fun with the time domain EEG)
multiple recordings and processing to remove artifacts
Impedance matching and amplification
More extreme methods of cleaning up data
neuromuscular blocking
EMG spikerbox from Backyard Brains
Neurosky headset
Resources