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salmanshams18 karma

I've 2 questions, one for specific to this pandemic and one in general.

For someone who now has to finish their PhD from home, and being just as productive as normal but not being able to leave the house at all and feeling trapped, what's the best advice you can give to not feel overwhelmed and/or depressed.

Why is it that research work has adversely affected the mental health of every PhD candidate I've ever seen?

salmanshams8 karma

Sounds 100% like how I felt about finishing my phd. I got an amazing supervisor and a great external who was super helpful

salmanshams3 karma

Hi. I'm doing a similar kind of work with prosthetic limbs. My work revolves around producing a myoelecteic controller system specifically for the arm. I collected all data using non invasive electrodes and tried to produce a system which would allow arms to be operated using myoelecteic signals from the brain. The electrodes I am expecting would be on the arm rather than near the brain even though the CNS is where these neural signals start off. I am also using machine learning for the training of the controller. I've got a few questions. 1) do you think it would be more feasible to have electrodes and sensors at the points of use rather than in the brain? 2) for the brain machine interfaces (BMIs) would non invasive electrodes just ruin accuracy? How big is the trade off? 3) do you think that machine learning interfaces which work with any specific human for a period of time would react better with that person or are the brain waves too similar for it to matter? 4) could your work be used to store memories? 5) could your work be used to store memories without the user wanting to store it?

salmanshams1 karma

Thank you very much for your response, I'll try to take your advice on board and try to not worry about life so much. Which it seems I'm going constantly