Neurocomputer interface: Science and Practice. Samara 2018 

Conference program designed in accordance with modern international standards, it included 2 days of scientific reports and breakout sessions, an expanded poster section, a demonstration of rehabilitation equipment, and an extensive cultural and sightseeing program.

Материалы конференции опубликованы в eLIBRARY.RU и проиндексированы в Российском индексе научного цитирования (РИНЦ).

The main topics in 2018 were artificial vision and modern methods of motor rehabilitation. The reports also covered a wide range of issues of human-machine interaction, the use of virtual reality and robotics in medicine, clinical trends in physiotherapy, and others.

Watch this short video about the 2018 conference.

The key speakers of the conference were Xing Chen (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam), Doron Friedman (Interdisciplinary Center Herzlia, Israel), Alexander Frolov (Institute of Higher Nervous Activity of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Alexander Kaplan (Moscow State University), Mikhail Lebedev (Duke University, USA), Alexey Osadchy (HSE), Eugene Tunik (Northeastern University, Boston), Junichi Ushiba (Keio University, Yokohama).

The organizers of the conference were:

• Samara State Medical University
• Department of Information Technology and Communications of the Samara Region
• Innovative territorial cluster of medical and pharmaceutical technologies of the Samara region
• IT Universe Company

The organizing committee traditionally includes leading scientists, representatives of government and non-profit organizations, and innovative companies.

The 2018 conference was included in the list of events The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and was supported by:

• Governments of the Samara Region
• A Russian venture company
• Samara Region Digital Development Project Office

The satellite events were held on October 13 by the NeuroNet Industry Union and the Think Samara group and included the Neurotlon 2018 competitions and popular lectures by leading world scientists.