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Biocybernetics Lab (formerly Biomedical Engineering)
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Revealing how the body maintains balance, and how that balance breaks down.
AboutAbout the lab
From the body's fluctuations to the mechanisms of disease.
The Biocybernetics Lab (formerly the Biomedical Engineering division) deepens understanding of the dynamic mechanisms by which biological functions arise, through research spanning medicine, engineering, and informatics.
It studies homeodynamics and allostasis, modern reinterpretations of homeostasis, the property of keeping the body in an "optimal state", along with the control mechanisms behind them.
It clarifies the mechanisms of diseases that arise when these become unstable, and develops the foundations of medical systems that support quantitative diagnosis.
Key terms
- Homeostasis
- The property of keeping the body's internal state constant (biological homeostasis).
- Allostasis
- The property of adapting by dynamically adjusting the body's state in response to changes in the environment.
- Biomarker
- A measurable indicator from the body that gives clues to the presence or progression of a disease.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab integrates data-driven research, which quantifies fluctuations in biological signals such as body movement and brain activity from data, with model-based research, which uses mathematical models to analyze the control mechanisms that generate those fluctuations.
*Illustrative imageApproaching the Body's Mechanisms with Models and Data
The lab quantifies fluctuations and rhythms in body movement and brain activity, and develops machine learning methods and dynamic biomarkers used to classify patients and quantify disease severity. It identifies the control systems that generate the fluctuations and analyzes their nonlinear dynamics mathematically.
*Illustrative imageMovement Disorders in Parkinson's Disease
The lab views the destabilization of standing posture and gait in Parkinson's disease as a disorder caused by destabilization of the mechanisms that keep the body steady. By measuring movement, EEG, and electromyography, it works to clarify the brain mechanisms that control body movement.
MembersFaculty
The faculty of the Biocybernetics Lab are Professor Taishin Nomura and Assistant Professor Kojiro Hayashi.
- ProfessorTaishin Nomura
- Assistant ProfessorKojiro Hayashi
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- Top image: “Flavia Saraiva 2016 Olympics Test Event event finals 1” Miriam Jeske / CC BY 3.0 br (cropped)
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- Movement Disorders in Parkinson's Disease: “Gait laboratory” D. Gordon E. Robertson / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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