News

• We are happy to congratulate Ms. Meghna for being selected as a Trustee scholar at Boston University

- 14th May 2021

• Rajya Sabha TV programme's "Eureka" covered our work on "Energy deficiency in some brain cells behind Parkinson’s: IIT Madras study suggests"

- 15th March 2021

• The Print covered our work titled "Energy deficiency in some brain cells behind Parkinson’s: IIT Madras study suggests"

- 11th March 2021

• More 50 newspapers covered our work on Energy deficiency in some brain cells behind Parkinson’s disease

- 10th March 2021

• Uploaded an article in bioRxiv titled "A Multiscale, Systems-level, Neuropharmacological Model of Cortico-Basal Ganglia System for Arm Reaching under Normal, Parkinsonian and Levodopa Medication Conditions" Link

- 11th February 2021

• Acceptance of an article in Nature Scientific Reports titled "Influence of Energy Deficiency on the Subcellular Processes of Substantia Nigra Pars Compacta Cell for Understanding Parkinsonian Neurodegeneration" by Vignayanandam R. Muddapu, V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy Link

- 23rd December 2020

Published - 18th January 2021

• Abstract got accepted in Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Global Connectome 2020 (Virtual) titled "Differential dopaminergic axonal degeneration manifest into tremor-like and rigidity-like Parkinsonian symptoms: A computational investigation"

- 8th December 2020

• Abstract got accepted for traditional talk in Neuromatch 3.0 (virtual) 2020 titled "A Multiscale Cortico-Basal Ganglia Model for Arm Reaching Task in Normal and Parkinsonian Conditions"

- 9th October 2020

• Abstract got accepted in Bernstein Conference (virtual) 2020 titled "A Generalized Reinforcement Learning-Based Deep Neural Network Model for Diverse Cognitive Constructs"

- 8th September 2020

• 2nd CNS-IITM lab day - Awarded SECOND BEST TEAM for academic year 2019-20

- 15th August 2020

• Acceptance of an article in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics titled "A Multi-Scale Computational Model of Excitotoxic Loss of Dopaminergic Cells in Parkinson’s Disease " by Vignayanandam R. Muddapu, V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy Link

- 14th July 2020

• Uploaded an article in bioRxiv titled "A Computational Model of Levodopa-Induced Toxicity in Substantia Nigra Pars Compacta in Parkinson's Disease" Link

- 6th April 2020

• Acceptance of an article in Frontiers in Neuroscience| Neurodegeneration titled "Neurodegenerative diseases - Is metabolic deficiency the root cause?" by Vignayanandam R. Muddapu, S. Akila P. Dharshini, V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, M. Michael Gromiha Link

- 26th February 2020

Published - 31st March 2020

• Uploaded an article in bioRxiv titled "A Multi-Scale Computational Model of Excitotoxic Loss of Dopaminergic Cells in Parkinson’s Disease" Link

- 20th February 2020

• Uploaded an article in bioRxiv titled "Influence of Energy Deficiency on the Molecular Processes of Substantia Nigra Pars Compacta Cell for Understanding Parkinsonian Neurodegeneration - A Comprehensive Biophysical Computational Model" Link

- 19th February 2020

• Patent filing completed on Pilot Testbench for Parkinson's disease patient titled "Multiscale Systems Neuropharmacological Model of Cortico-Basal Ganglia Circuitry of Reaching for Normal and Parkinson’s Disease"

- 31st January 2020

• Congratulations to Ms. Kratika Mujmer for getting selected for Khorana Program for Scholars 2020

- 20th January 2020

• Abstract got accepted in Advances in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Therapies 2020 (AD-PD 2020) to be held in Vienna, Austria titled "Loss of Projection Neurons Due to Glutamate Toxicity in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Computational Model"

- 7th January 2020

• Abstract got accepted in Dopamine 2020 to be held in Montreal , Canada titled "A Computational Model of Levodopa-Induced Toxicity in Substantia Nigra Pars Compacta in Parkinson's Disease"

- 20th December 2019

• Abstract got accepted in Annual Conference of Neural Control of Movement 2020 to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia titled "A Systems Neuropharmacological Model of Cortico-Basal Ganglia Circuitry of Arm Reaching for Normal, Parkinsonian and Levodopa medication"

- 18th December 2019

• Abstract got accepted in Annual Conference of Cognitive Science 2019 to be held in BITS-Pilani Goa, INDIA titled "A Computational Pharmacological Model of Levodopa Medication of PD Patients"

- 1st October 2019

• Abstract got accepted in Annual Conference of Cognitive Science 2019 to be held in BITS-Pilani Goa, INDIA titled "Role of astrocytes in metabolic support of neurons"

- 1st October 2019

• Basal ganglia explorers team presentation - Presenting work status and plan of action of the team for next one year

- 27th September 2019

• Abstract got accepted in Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference 2019 to be held in Chicago, USA titled "A comprehensive biophysical model of substantia nigra pars compacta cells for understanding Parkinsonian neurodegeneration"

- 21st June 2019

• 1st CNS-IITM lab day - Awarded BEST TEAM for academic year 2018-19

- 29th April 2019

• Uploaded the code of Excitotoxic loss of dopaminergic cells in PD (Muddapu et al 2019) in ModelDB server Link

- 5th March 2019

• Published an article in Frontiers in Neural Circuits titled "A computational model of loss of dopaminergic cells in Parkinson’s disease due to glutamate-induced excitotoxicity" by Muddapu VR, Mandali A, Chakravarthy VS, Ramaswamy S Link

- 25th February 2019

• Basal ganglia explorers team presentation - Presenting plan of action of the team for next five years

- 12th October 2018

• Visited to Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology, Puducherry for a guest lecture

- 6th September 2018

• Uploaded an article in bioRxiv titled "A computational model of loss of dopaminergic cells in Parkinson’s disease due to glutamate-induced excitotoxicity" Link

- 8th August 2018