Electronic Engineering for Neuromedicine

Advances in electronics have revolutionized diagnostic tools and created mobile medicine, touch-sensitive prosthetics, remote surgery, artificial organs such as hearts, retinas, and bionic skins. With the strong connection between electronics and neuroscience, electrical engineers have modelled the brain as a collection of electronic building blocks to study function, diagnosis, and malfunction. Electronics specialists are now able to configure artificial neural networks and artificial intelligence which are leading efforts in understanding human cognition and machine learning.

This book discusses the application of electronic engineering in neuroscience and provides some ideas and principles which are either well established or have the potential and promise of being well established in neuro-medical practice.

This reference text shows the number of ways in which electronic engineering feeds into neuromedicine namely: the modelling and simulation of the brain, providing access to the brain, analysis of the signals and activities of the brain and influencing the function of the brain for therapeutic purposes. The areas of electronic engineering considered are electronic circuits, spectral analysis, filtering of signals, electromagnetic fields and wave propagation. The book is useful to medical students and practitioners, electronic engineering and physics students and graduates who wish to gain knowledge of the applications of their fields of study in neuroscience.