Year: 2020
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Introduction.Academic and commercial research teams are currently developing a new generation of devices that will interact with, incorporate, and/or emulate living nervous systems.Neural prostheses to restore hearing, mobility or sight will offer a wider range of function; robotic devices will become more effective with "neuromorphic" control systems; fundamentally new methods for processing information will be motivated by biological systems.Neural Engineering is the intellectual force behind these developments, supported by recent advances in cellular neurobiology, microfabrication and neural modeling.Based on decades of quantitative approaches to increase our understanding of neural systems, bioengineers are now beginning to design neural systems and neural interfaces.Neural engineers have new tools to control aspects of these systems such as guided axon growth and multielectrode arrays for stimulation and recording.In addition to potential applications attracting the attention of biotech and defense industries, these efforts in turn increase our understanding of natural neural systems.
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--10740
Authors: Richard Magin, Christopher Comer, J Hetling
Institution: University of Illinois Chicago
Language: English
Subfield: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2511771037