Christian Franck, Brown University

Reuben Kraft, Pennsylvania State University

Ellen Kuhl, Stanford University

This symposium aims to bring together the latest advances highlighting the important contribution that multiscale mechanics plays in studying the brain. From birth defects to traumatic brain injuries, the role of mechanical deformations at the cellular scale remain elusive and difficult to quantify and model. Recent studies integrating expertise from solid and fluid mechanics with neurobiology have shown great promise to unravel the complex disease or defect mechanism and resulting sequlea. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, experimental and modeling research focused on cellular injury or defect mechanisms and models, mechanobiology of the brain-skull interface, techniques to link multiple scales or physics related to brain structure or function, and role of various structures on response (e.g. vasculature).

Keywords:  human health, biomechanics

To submit an abstract to this symposium, submit it to symposium no. 202 in the dropdown menu of submissions. Submissions should be made online at http://submissions.usnctam2018.org/#/abstract/submit