Research and Markets: Brain Machine Interfaces. Implications for Science, Clinical practice and Society

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Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/396303/brain_machine_inte) has announced the addition of Elsevier Science and Technology's new report "Brain Machine Interfaces. Implications for science, clinical practice and society" to their offering.

This volume follows on from the symposium "Brain Machine Interfaces - Implications for science, clinical practice and society", held on August 26th-29th 2010 in Ystad, Sweden, and features contributions from pioneers and leading scientists in the field of BMI and motor systems physiology, including spinal cord, basal ganglia and motor cortex. The wide range of topics covered include implants for mind control of prostheses and in robotics, clinical and experimental research on Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, depression and Alzheimer's disease, cochlear implants, retinal implants, novel flexible micro- and nano-electrode implants, safety aspects including acute and chronic tissue reactions to implants and on ethical issues in DBS.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Making the lifetime connection between brain and machine for restoring and enhancing function

2. The Human Neural Interface: Restoring Function by Merging Brain and Technology

3. Brain-Computer Interfaces for communication in locked-in patients

4. Towards a Whole Body Neuroprosthetic

5. Useful Signals from Motor Cortex

6. Applications of implantable recurrent brain-computer interfaces

7. Toward ultra thin multichannel electrodes for studies of learning and memory in vivo

8. The Logics of Networks in Motion - mechanisms for selection and control

9. Deep Brain Stimulation: Brain Machine Interfaces at large, where are we going to?

10. Development of neuromodulation treatments in a large animal model - Do neurosurgeons dream of electric pigs?

11. Basal ganglia dynamics during action initiation and suppression

12. A few examples of the contribution of animal research for clinical application of Deep Brain Stimulation

13. Deep Brain Stimulation- challenges and opportunities

14. Cochlear and retinal prostheses: an overview of safety and efficacy, neural rescue and brain plasticity studies

15. Cochlear implants: Matching the prosthesis to the brain and facilitating desired plastic changes in brain function

16. Neural microstimulation parameters and interfacial quality effects

17. The Feasibility of a Cortically Based Visual Prosthesis: Stimulation and Recording in Monkey Visual Cortex with Chronically Implanted Microelectrode Arrays

18. Physical and chemical factors influencing the biocompatibility of an implant

19. A Biologically-based Design Strategy for Reducing the Foreign Body Response to Chronically Implanted Neural Interfaces

20. Biocompatibility and CNS: need for standardization?

21. Reviving the CPG after spinal cord injury

22. What does the brain control? 23. Advanced use of electrical stimulation for recovery of function

24. Restoring Standing and Walking by the Reactivation of Central Neural Networks

25. Reanimating the arm and hand with intraspinal stimulation

26. Ethics of Control and Consent in Brain Stimulation for Parkinson Disease

27. Neuroprosthetics and Neuromarkers

28. Neural Signal Processing: At the Interface Between Basic and Clinical Neuroscience

29. Inference of hand movements from population activity in monkey and human sensorimotor cortex: Towards Brain-Machine Interfaces

30. Semiconductor Chips with Ion Channels, Nerve Cells and Brain Tissue

31. Interfacing Neurons with Carbon Nanotubes: (re)engineering single-neuron excitability and network connectivity in Cultured Brain Circuits

32. Nanomodified surfaces and neurite outgrowth

33. Nanochannels for cell biology and DNA analysis

34. Establishing Reliable Communication Across the Glial Scar: In-Situ Polymerization of Conjugated Polymers in Living Cortex

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