Professor Moira L. Steyn-Ross
Professor
Qualifications: MSc PhD Waikato MNZIP
Research Interests
- Cortical Modelling
- Theortical modelling of the bulk electrodynamics of the human brain
- EEG simulation
- Clinical monitoring of anaesthesia
Research Supervised
PhD
- Ehsan Negahbani
- Leyla Noroozbabaee
- Kaier Wang
- Rogier Westerhoff
Teaching Commitments
Recent Publications
Steyn-Ross, M. L., Steyn-Ross, D. A., Voss, L. J., & Sleigh, J. W. (2019). Spinodal decomposition in a mean-field model of the cortex: Emergence of hexagonally symmetric activation patterns. Physical Review E, 99(1). doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.99.012318
Malluwawadu, S., Steyn-Ross, D., Steyn-Ross, M., & Wilson, M. (2019). Investigating action potential initiation and death in human cortex using a novel modelling approach. In New Zealand Institute of Physics Conference 2019. Christchurch.
Bukoski, A., Steyn-Ross, D. A., Pickett, A. F., & Steyn-Ross, M. L. (2018). Anesthesia modifies subthreshold critical slowing down in a stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley-like model with inhibitory synaptic input. Physical Review E, 97(6). doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.97.062403
Steyn-Ross, D. A., & Steyn-Ross, M. L. (2017). Brain and nonlinear dynamics: Slow-wave sleep regulates to the edge of chaos. In I. Opris, & M.F. Casanova (Eds.), The Physics of the Mind and Brain Disorders (Vol. 11, pp. 213-232). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29674-6_10