Saturday, June 29, 2019

Adenium obesum: Forehead wearable sensors, and Headbands for studying the brain, and meditation, 'Pegman' in the lower left corner of Google Streetview will grow in to realistic virtual avatar bots onto which we'll be able to put virtual soft, skin-like, organic optoelectronic sensors for wearable oximetry, and virtual thin film ASICs for flexible wearables * * * @WorldUnivAndSch just joined Handshake as an employer (Very great way to hire student externs, when WUaS gets money). Affiliated with 23 of greatest universities in the US: MIT, Yale, Princeton, Brown, including 3 Quaker colleges


Dear Yasser, (Prashant, and Tim),

Thanks for your excellent Stanford "Soft, skin-like, organic optoelectronic sensors for wearable oximetry" talk, Yasser - https://events.stanford.edu/events/841/84184/ ... (and Prashant for your "eWear Seminar: Thin film ASICs for flexible wearables" talk yesterday - https://events.stanford.edu/events/842/84236/). And nice to see you again, Yasser, and to meet you, Prashant.

Yasser, I'm writing to follow up about my questions after your talk plus some other related items (and including Prashant and Tim Fiore MD, Chief Science Officer of the HUMM head band - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-fiori-780b7a84/ & https://www.medgadget.com/2018/12/edge-headset-for-enhanced-learning-and-memory-interview-with-dr-tim-fiori-co-founder-of-humm.html) re possible collaborations.

Am interested in the forehead sensor you mentioned yesterday for studying oximetry, and with regard to an eventual headband even.

Am curious too if we might all develop a study of meditation building on Herbert Benson MD's ~1972 study, but in new and different ways vis-a-vis oximetry. I think Benson was attempting to study meditation scientifically and came up with relaxation response as a biological-response approach definitionally.  (Inner releasing action, are some of the words I use). How to measure and study this further?

For Benson "Blood lactate levels decreased during and after meditation. Oxygen consumption was deeper than during sleep, Symptoms of the body under stress. Dr. Cannon ..."
http://www.relaxationresponse.org/Presentation.htm (See too: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/10/relaxation).

I'm particularly interested in adding an aspect to such a new study brainstorming-wise, and by studying the relaxation response newly in warm water In the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool, differentially from the relaxation response on terra firma (i.e. without soaking in warm pool).

Using a forehead oximetry soft, skin-like sensor (eventually into a head band in order to study other aspects of meditation), how might we develop both or your sensor / eWearable's knowledge and approaches in these directions?

And might we explore eventual mapping of the brain (with lasers you mentioned as  a possibility, Yasser) and in particular, brainstorming-wise re -

"In what ways could we map the folds & contours brain for MEDITATION in the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool (a de facto relaxation response meditation) @HarbinBook ? HUMM head bands, like this mapping the sea floor (see quad view) https://twitter.com/EVNautilus/status/1141751771032719360 … ? https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences … ~"


https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1141762919341776901 (Am the founder and head of MIT OCW-centric World University and School, and seeking to create a realistic virtual earth for STEM research at the Google Streetview, cellular, and atomic levels for this - think Google's Project Baseline too).

Conceptually and brainstorming-wise, NEXT pack the HUMM headband full of A) sensors including lasers for mapping, and studying the brain scientifically, (depression too re hormones-approach which you mentioned Stanford Medicine is looking at Yasser), and B) wifi to transmit its data into avatar bot brains in a realistic virtual earth (such as in a realistic virtual Harbin)

Shall we all write scientific paper together, first focusing on the relaxation response in warm water - and re oximetry? We may need a few further co-authors for the science, graphs, statistics etc.

And Yasser, and Prashant and Tim, would you like to meet for a cup of tea at Stanford Medicine to explore some of this further. A focus on writing a scientific paper could aid all of our academic and technology careers. And studying meditation is a very worthy scientific goal.  (Am interested further in exploring studying consciousness scientifically in these regards as well - and perhaps Prof Michael Pitts at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, as well as Prof. Nathalia King there, both studying consciousness too, might be collaborators in some regards).

Thanks for your excellent Stanford talks, Yasser and Prashant, and your excellent Stanford HUMM headband demonstration, Tim.

Shall we meet to talk sometime soon, Yasser? (Will you be in the US for a while longer, Prashant?) And are you in Berkeley, Tim?

Let's communicate in email about this further, and potentially meet as well.

Namaste, cheers, and All the best, Scott



Check out the Harbin Gate in this realistic virtual earth (Google Streetview) ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg and "amble" down the road "4 miles" to "walk" around Middletown, California ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ . Part of the creation of a realistic virtual Harbin and realistic virtual earth - at the atomic and cellular levels too with machine learning - will involve developing approaches for all scientists to brain science(all STEM related digital modeling questions). 'Pegman' in the lower left corner will grow in to realistic virtual avatar bots onto which we'll be able to put virtual soft, skin-like, organic optoelectronic sensors for wearable oximetry, and virtual thin film ASICs for flexible wearables.


Some blog posts about all of your talks/presentations are here -  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Brain.

e.g.
Yasser: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/columbidae-from-next-november-i-will-be.html

Prashant: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/bristlecone-pine-blockchain-for-multi.html

Tim: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/death-valley-pupfish-reed-prof-nathalia.html


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I may email Dr. Herbert Benson MD himself ... and ask him about his thoughts for designing such a study. 


Although I haven't found any of the scientific papers Benson published about his 'relaxation response' studies, including experimental apparatus, here are some more related articles -






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"Soft, skin-like, organic optoelectronic sensors for wearable oximetry"
Yasser Khan, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
https://events.stanford.edu/events/841/84184/

In this talk, I will focus on wearable soft sensors for oximetry. Conventional oximeters use expensive and rigid optoelectronic components that restrict sensing locations to fingertips or earlobes. To address these limitations, we demonstrated an all-organic optoelectronic sensor for transmission-mode pulse oximetry. This transmission-mode probe demonstrated that oximetry can be performed with organic optoelectronics. However, to realize the true potential of organic optoelectronics for oximetry, a reflection-mode operation is essential that allows sensor placement on different parts of the body. In the latter part of the talk, I will discuss design, sensing methodology, and fabrication of a flexible and printed sensor array, which senses reflected light from tissue. Due to the ability to place the sensor in diverse places, the sensor is promising for novel medical sensing applications such as mapping oxygenation in tissues, wounds, or transplanted organs. Finally, I will wrap up the talk by listing recent progress and future directions in soft biophotonic sensing.



https://profiles.stanford.edu/yasser-khan

http://web.stanford.edu/~ymkhan/assets/cv/yasser_khan_academic_cv.pdf

http://web.stanford.edu/~ymkhan/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasifkhan/



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Thanks too, Prashant Agarwal, for your Stanford "eWear Seminar: Thin film ASICs for flexible wearables" talk yesterday - https://events.stanford.edu/events/842/84236/).

One of the key challenges for wearables is that one-size-fits-all does not work. Most of the focus on customization and personalization of the wearables has been on the software and data analysis fronts. The hardware (sensors, readout, signal conditioning and processing, etc) is typically common across all the units of specific version of specific wearables. Human body has inherent variability from person to person as well as across different sites on the body. Thus, the hardware should ideally be customized across persons and across sites of body to ensure that high quality data can be captured. However, customization of hardware is constraint by high time and cost required and the trade-offs involved in customizability, cost, performance and power. This talk will present imec’s work in thin film ASICs that can enable hardware customization at lower cost and manufacturing turn-around times as well as enable flexible and skin-conformable form factors.

Prashant Agrawal received his PhD (Electrical Engineering) from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2015 and MS (Computers Science & Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2009. He is currently the Program Manager for Thin Film Electronics at Imec Belgium. Prior to this, he had been Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Imec between 2015-18 during which he managed technical and business development activities, and fund raising for internal ventures. He worked as Senior R&D Engineer in the Hyperspectral Imaging Group at Imec (Belgium) between 2014-2015 and as Technical Staff Member in the HPC Group at IBM Research India between 2006-2009.

About imec:
Imec (imec-int.com) is a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, energy and education.

As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and universities we bring together more than 4,000 brilliant minds from over 97 nationalities. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has distributed R&D groups at a number of Flemish universities, in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, and offices in China, India and Japan. In 2018, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 583 million euro.
Imec is a registered trademark for the activities of IMEC International (a legal entity set up under Belgian law as a "stichting van openbaar nut”), imec Belgium (IMEC vzw supported by the Government of Flanders), imec the Netherlands (Stichting IMEC Nederland, part of Holst Centre which is supported by the Dutch Government), imec Taiwan (IMEC Taiwan Co.), imec China (IMEC Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd), imec India (Imec India Private Limited), and imec Florida (IMEC USA nanoelectronics design center).



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