Dr. Bindu M. Kutty
Designation: Professor, Dept. of Neurophysiology.
Incharge Professor and Coordinator of NIMHANS Center for Consciousness Studies
Major Objectives
1. To contribute towards the perspectives of the cognitive reserve capacities of the brain.
2. To contribute towards the understanding of the Neurobiology of Consciousness along the illness to wellness spectrum in sleeping and waking brain.
Phone : +91-080-26995170 (O)
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Keywords : Consciousness, Brain plasticity, Schizophrenia, Spinocerebellar ataxia, Sleep architecture, Lucid dreaming, Meditation, Cognitive reserve, Cognition, Emotion regulation, Spatial learning, Subiculum, Photoperiod, Memory, tACS, Functional connectivity, Sleep ERPs, Entropy measures, ANGEL.
Incharge Professor and Coordinator of NIMHANS Center for Consciousness Studies
Major Objectives
1. To contribute towards the perspectives of the cognitive reserve capacities of the brain.
2. To contribute towards the understanding of the Neurobiology of Consciousness along the illness to wellness spectrum in sleeping and waking brain.
Phone : +91-080-26995170 (O)
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Keywords : Consciousness, Brain plasticity, Schizophrenia, Spinocerebellar ataxia, Sleep architecture, Lucid dreaming, Meditation, Cognitive reserve, Cognition, Emotion regulation, Spatial learning, Subiculum, Photoperiod, Memory, tACS, Functional connectivity, Sleep ERPs, Entropy measures, ANGEL.
EEG/Meditation
- We try to understand brain functions through EEG dynamics during different
states of consciousness in various meditative practices. - Exploring various novel analysis techniques including nonlinear techniques, source localisation, connectivity analysis to elucidate the brain plasticity
mechanisms.
ERP/Cognition
- We study neural correlates of cognition and a broad spectrum of brain
functions using a novel method of ERP acquisition (ANGEL) and analysis. - We evaluate various aspects of cognition-emotion interactions.
Sleep
- Neurophysiology of sleep, Dream physiology.
- Neurobiology of sleep associated with neuropsychiatric disorders.
- Integrating macro & micro sleep architecture parameters to quantify sleep efficiency, sleep depth/quality.
- Validating novel intervention strategies in sleep.
- Thalamocortical dysfunctions including reduced sleep spindle dynamics in Schizophrenia subjects.
- Understanding polysomnographic changes in spicocerebellar ataxia and
general anxiety disorder patients.
Animal Cognition Studies
- Role of subiculum in spatial learning and memory functions.
- Importance of strategies such as environmental enrichment, physical exercise,
diet, transplantation etc. - Understanding neurobiology of schizophrenia using appropriate animal models.
- Explore and validate the importance of photoperiod manipulation for the management of neuropsychiatric conditions and cognition.