{"603945":{"#nid":"603945","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Gurel Receives Paper Prize at IEEE BSN Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENil Gurel received the runner-up prize at the 2018 IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference Best Paper Award competition. The conference was held March 4-7 in Las Vegas, Nevada.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGurel is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), where she is a member of the Inan Research Lab. The title of Gurel\u0026rsquo;s award-winning paper is \u0026ldquo;Toward Closed-Loop Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation using Peripheral Cardiovascular Physiological Biomarkers: A Proof-of-Concept Study.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETranscutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (t-VNS)\u0026nbsp;is a promising technology for modulating brain function and\u0026nbsp;possibly treating disorders of the central nervous system such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this work, real-time non-invasive physiological\u0026nbsp;biomarkers of t-VNS derived from wearable cardiovascular physiology measurements were introduced and verified with experimental studies. Additionally, t-VNS applied after traumatic recall for subjects with prior trauma was shown to decrease the fight-or-flight response to this mental and emotional stressor,\u0026nbsp;demonstrating the potential for such stimulation technologies in potentially\u0026nbsp;reducing such responses for patients with\u0026nbsp;PTSD in future work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis work represents a\u0026nbsp;highly collaborative effort between researchers at the Georgia Tech School of ECE and Emory University in the School of Medicine\u0026nbsp;and the Rollins School of Public Health.\u0026nbsp;Gurel\u0026rsquo;s coauthors are fellow ECE Ph.D. student Mobashir H. Shandi; J. Douglas Bremner of the Emory School of Medicine Department of Radiology and Department of Psychiatry and the Atlanta VA Medical Center; Viola Vaccarino of Emory Rollins School of Public Health and School of Medicine\/Division of Cardiology; Stacy L. Ladd, Emory Department of Radiology; Lucy Shallenberger, Emory Rollins School of Public Health; Amit Shah, Emory Rollins School of Public Health and School of Medicine\/Division of Cardiology; and Omer Inan, director of the Inan Research Lab and ECE Ph.D. advisor to both Gurel and Shandi.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;Nil Gurel received the runner-up prize at the 2018 IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference Best Paper Award competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student\u00a0Nil Gurel received the runner-up prize at the 2018 IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference Best Paper Award competition."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2018-03-17 22:16:56","changed_gmt":"2018-03-17 22:16:56","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"603944":{"id":"603944","type":"image","title":"Nil Gurel","body":null,"created":"1521324243","gmt_created":"2018-03-17 22:04:03","changed":"1521324243","gmt_changed":"2018-03-17 22:04:03","alt":"photograph of Nil Gurel","file":{"fid":"230185","name":"Image-1.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Image-1.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Image-1.png","mime":"image\/png","size":222539,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Image-1.png?itok=UmQYY3W2"}}},"media_ids":["603944"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/irl.gatech.edu","title":"Inan Research Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/med.emory.edu\/index.html","title":"Emory University School of Medicine"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.sph.emory.edu","title":"Emory University Rollins School of Public Health"},{"url":"https:\/\/bhi-bsn.embs.org\/2018\/","title":"IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"}],"keywords":[{"id":"177462","name":"Nil Gurel"},{"id":"125271","name":"Omer Inan"},{"id":"171798","name":"Inan Research Lab"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"177463","name":"2018 IEEE Body Sensor Networks Conference"},{"id":"177464","name":"Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation"},{"id":"177465","name":"central nervous system disorders"},{"id":"177466","name":"posttraumatic stress disorder"},{"id":"2305","name":"Emory University"},{"id":"177467","name":"Emory School of Medicine"},{"id":"177468","name":"Emory Rollins School of Public Health"},{"id":"177469","name":"Atlanta VA Center"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}