This course aims to equip students with a broad understanding of digital health, emphasizing not only technical skills but also ethical considerations and critical thinking when designing, developing, and implementing digital tools in healthcare settings. The main objective is to set the stage for digital health, in general, and to understand the impact of design, development, and use of digital tools within healthcare settings for optimization purposes, in particular. By the end of the course, the students will be able to illustrate introductory knowledge of digital health, encompassing design, development, and utilization of digital tools in healthcare settings, as demonstrated by their assignment, where the focus is to design a mobile application for a specific case as well as reflect on the ethical implications of working with artificial intelligence as an embedded part of healthcare.

The course instructor is Dr. Anna Sigridur Islind, a professor at the department of computer science at Reykjavik University. 

To register, contact: islind@ru.is

The following content will be covered by the practical course:

• Isolation of mitochondria
• Blue native electrophoresis to study mitochondrial protein complexes.
• Activity assays of respiratory chain complexes
• Membrane potential measurements
• Studies of mitochondrial morpholog
• Protein-protein interaction studies

Neuroscience techniques are undergoing a rapid development. These developments open up new possibilities for investigating the brain as a network at various levels. We will introduce a range of advanced techniques which currently are being applied in neuroscience in particular to study brain networks. We aim at covering both the basics of the techniques and how they are applied to address specific research questions.

This course will provide up-to-date insights into the neurobiological basis of language. The course will be given by internationally leading researchers in the field. Students will learn how state-of-the-art methods and approaches are currently being applied, and what are the next big questions for the field.