Title :
Neuroengineering: Building interfaces from neurons to brain
Author :
Thakor, Nitish V.
Author_Institution :
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Abstract :
Neuroengineering is emerging as an exciting new field with wide ranging research opportunities to contribute to both basic and clinical neurosciences. Armed with training and diverse research tools, engineers are now contributing to technologies to interface to neurons and to the whole brain. The research on modern neural and brain interface technologies has culminated in very recent, exciting programs to develop brain-machine interfaces such as neutrally controlled prostheses.
Keywords :
Central nervous system; Microelectrodes; Nervous system; Neural engineering; Neural prosthesis; Neurons; Optical imaging; Regeneration engineering; Spinal cord; Tissue engineering; Biomedical Engineering; Brain; Humans; Neurons; User-Computer Interface;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649478
