Abstract
The tsunami effect of the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting many aspects of scientific activities. Multidisciplinary experimental studies with international collaborators are hindered by the closing of the national borders, logistic issues due to lockdown, quarantine restrictions, and social distancing requirements. The full impact of this crisis on science is not clear yet, but the above-mentioned issues have most certainly restrained academic research activities. Sharing innovative solutions between researchers is in high demand in this situation. The aim of this paper is to share our successful practice of using web-based communication and remote control software for real-time long-distance control of brain stimulation. This solution may guide and encourage researchers to cope with restrictions and has the potential to help expanding international collaborations by lowering travel time and costs.
Highlights
According to WHO, over 35 million people in 200 countries are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic (World Health Organization, 2020)
Scientific collaborations and international mobility have been directly linked to high-quality science and innovation with a great impact on scientific discovery, career development, and cultural maturity (Noren, 2004)
Over the last 25 years, researchers have tried to build different computer-supported scientific collaboration environments, sustaining long-distance participation, solving larger-scale problems, and initiating breakthrough science have been achieved in a few numbers of these efforts (Bos et al, 2007)
Summary
According to WHO, over 35 million people in 200 countries are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic (World Health Organization, 2020). We are presenting an international collaboration using tools including real-time long-distance control of brain stimulation, where groups of researchers from two different countries successfully collaborated online to complete the planned complex series of experimental surgeries and electrophysiology studies on miniature pigs (“minipigs”). The same method was used, but with lower isodoses in the right visual cortex (V1) to investigate the radio-biological responses of the neural tissue at doses below the threshold of tissue destruction This was studied by implantation of an invasive intracortical multichannel electrode probe and a brain-computer interface into the target area to perform an electrophysiological readout. We did not face any kind of disturbance in data acquisition or transferring in terms of missing data or data corruption
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