Biohybrid Systems: Nerves, Interfaces and Machines

by Ranu Jung (Editor)

Overview

The integration of technology with biology is making us more productive in the workplace, enabling medical devices to be more effective, and making our entertainment systems more engaging. Our lives are changing as biology and technology merge to form biohybrid systems. Real-time communication between a nervous system and a device is now possible. But full and reliable integration is still far from reality. This book describes several recent advances and some of the key challenges faced by engineers and scientists developing biohybrid systems that interface nerves, muscles and machines.

Topics include:

• Merging Technology with Biology
• Principles of Computational Neuroscience
• Neuromorphic Electronic Design
• Principles of Neural Signal Processing
• Dynamic Clamp in Biomimetic and Biohybrid Living- Hardware Systems
• Biohybrid Circuits: Nanotransducers Linking Cells and Neural Electrodes
• Hybrid Systems Analysis: Real- time Systems for Design and Prototyping of Neural Interfaces and Prostheses
• Biomimetic Adaptive Control Algorithms
• Neuromorphic Hardware for Control
• Biohybrid Systems for Neurocardiology
• Bioelectronic Sensing of Insulin Demand

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783527639373
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/19/2012
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Ranu Jung holds the Wallace H. Coulter Eminent Scholars Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University, USA where she is Professor and Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department. She joined Florida International in 2011 from Arizona State University where she was founding co-director of the Center for Adaptive Neural Systems. She has also co-founded Advensys LLC, a small business R&D company and previously was President of the Organization for Computational Neurosciences, Inc. a non-profit that serves a global community of computational neuroscientists. Jung received her first degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology-Warangal, India and her Masters and Doctorate degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, USA. She is actively engaged in the development of neurotechnology that is inspired by biology, is adaptive and could be used to promote adaptation in the nervous system to overcome neurological disability or trauma.

Table of Contents

Merging Technology with Biology
Principles of Computational Neuroscience
Neuromorphic Electronic Design
Principles of Neural Signal Processing
Dynamic Clamp in Biomimetic and Biohybrid Living- Hardware Systems
Biohybrid Circuits: Nanotransducers Linking Cells and Neural Electrodes
Hybrid Systems Analysis: Real- time Systems for Design and Prototyping of Neural Interfaces and Prostheses
Biomimetic Adaptive Control Algorithms
Neuromorphic Hardware for Control
Biohybrid Systems for Neurocardiology
Bioelectronic Sensing of Insulin Demand

Editorial Reviews

This text offers a detailed overview of recent advances in biohybrid systems interfacing nerves, muscles and machines  … The chapters are well written and despite being a multi-authored work there is little repetition and good links to other sections.”  (Electrodiagnostics and Clinical Engineering, 2012)

 

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