{"id":119569,"date":"2022-07-18T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T17:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?page_id=119569"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:58:47","slug":"neural-engineering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/academics\/departments-and-divisions\/biomedical-engineering\/our-research\/neural-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Neural Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Understanding the human brain<\/h2>\n<p>BU BME neural engineering faculty build molecular and photonic tools to study the brain; investigate the quantitative neurophysiology underlying brain and nervous-system function in humans and other species; develop computational models that guide our understanding of brain function; work to understand and treat neurological disorders; and advance methods by which we can help repair the brain and restore neurological function in patients.<\/p>\n<p>Activities in neural engineering take advantage of BU\u2019s great strength in photonics and imaging, basic neuroscience, data sciences and computing, neurology, and cell-and-tissue engineering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the human brain BU BME neural engineering faculty build molecular and photonic tools to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11977,"featured_media":0,"parent":119258,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119569"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142521,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119569\/revisions\/142521"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}