Neural Engineering (Bioelectric Engineering)

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About the Series: Bioelectric Engineering presents state-of-the-art discussions on modern biomedical engineering with respect to applications of electrical engineering and information technology in biomedicine. This focus affirms Springer’s commitment to publishing important reviews of the broadest interest to biomedical engineers, bioengineers, and their colleagues in affiliated disciplines. Recent volumes have covered modeling and imaging of bioelectric activity, neural engineering, biosignal processing, bionanotechnology, among other topics. Key Features of this Volume: Neural Engineering (Bioelectric Engineering Volume 3) contains reviews and discussions of contemporary and relevant topics by leading investigators in the field. It is intended to serve as a textbook at the graduate and advanced undergraduate level in a bioengineering curriculum. The topics include: – Neural Prostheses – Neural Interfacing – Neural Robotics – Functional Neural Stimulation – Neural Imaging – Neural Computation – Neural Networks – Neural System Identification and Prediction – Retinal Neuroengineering This principles and applications approach to neural engineering is essential reading for all academics, biomedical engineers, neuroscientists, neurophysiologists, and industry professionals wishing to take advantage of the latest and greatest in this emerging field. About the Editor: Bin He, PhD., IEEE Fellow, is a leading figure in the field of bioelectric engineering. An internationally recognized scientist with numerous publications, Dr. He has served as the President of the International Society of Bioelectromagnetism and as an Associate or Guest Editor for nine international journals in the field of biomedical engineering. Dr. He is currently Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Basic Concepts In Neuroscience: A Student's Survival Guide

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Malcolm M. Slaughter
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ASIN: 0071360468

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*A new book in the Basic Concepts series
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*Level of the material progressively builds from simple to complex, enabling mastery of concepts
*Content is presented in simple, jargon-free language
*Critical need-to-know information is highlights in boxes
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Sensory Neurons: Diversity, Development, and Plasticity

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Sheryl A. Scott
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Vertebrate sensory neurons occupy a unique place in the nervous system, conveying information from the periphery to the CNS. While sensory physiologists have long recognized differences in response properties among cells in dorsal root and cranial ganglia, the full extent of heterogeneity among these neurons has only recently become apparent. Phenotypic diversity is the underlying theme of this unique work, which summarizes our current understanding of the individual characteristics and development of sensory neurons. The chapters are arranged in three cohesive sections. The first describes heterogeneity in the function, biochemical make-up, ion channels, membrane properties, and central projection patterns of dorsal root ganglion neurons. The second section discusses the development of sensory neurons, covering such topics as the origins of dorsal root and cranial ganglia, adhesive interactions involved in axon outgrowth, trophic dependence of sensory neurons, and the development of the physiological properties and central and peripheral connections of dorsal root ganglion neurons. The last section explains regeneration and plasticity of mature neurons, including sprouting of skin sensory axons, plasticity in central terminations, axotomy and regeneration, and the continuing role of neurotrophic factors in adult neurons.

Development of Sensory Systems in Mammals (Wiley Series in Neurobiology)

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Development of Sensory Systems in Mammals (Wiley Series in Neurobiology)
James R. Coleman
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Introduction to Dynamic Modeling of Neuro-Sensory Systems (Biomedical Engineering Series (Crc Press).)

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Introduction to Dynamic Modeling of Neuro-Sensory Systems (Biomedical Engineering Series (Crc Press).)
Robert B. Northrop
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Although neural modeling has a long history, most of the texts available on the subject are quite limited in scope, dealing primarily with the simulation of large-scale biological neural networks applicable to describing brain function. Introduction to Dynamic Modeling of Neuro-Sensory Systems presents the mathematical tools and methods that can describe and predict the dynamic behavior of single neurons, small assemblies of neurons devoted to a single tasks, as well as larger sensory arrays and their underlying neuropile. Focusing on small and medium-sized biological neural networks, the author pays particular attention to visual feature extraction, especially the compound eye visual system and the vertebrate retina. For computational efficiency, the treatment avoids molecular details of neuron function and uses the locus approach for medium-scale modeling of arrays. Rather than requiring readers to learn a dedicated simulation program, the author uses the general, nonlinear ordinary differential equation solver Simnonä for all examples and exercises. There is both art and science in setting up a computational model that can be validated from existing neurophysiological data. With clear prose, more than 200 figures and photographs, and unique focus, Introduction to Dynamic Modeling of Neuro-Sensory Systems develops the science, nurtures the art, and builds the foundation for more advanced work in neuroscience and the rapidly emerging field of neuroengineering.

Molecular Neurobiology of the Olfactory System: Molecular, Membranous, and Cytological Studies

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Neurobiology of Sensory Systems
R. Naresh Singh , and Nicholas J. Strausfeld
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Neuronal Networks: Proceedings of the 63rd W.E. Heraeus Seminar Friedrichsdorf 1990 (Nonlinear Systems)

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Nonlinear Dynamics and Neuronal Networks: Proceedings of the 63rd W.E. Heraeus Seminar Friedrichsdorf 1990 (Nonlinear Systems)

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Nonlinear Dynamics and Neuronal Network

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This book offers a general, interdisciplinary discussion of global environmental change oriented toward the non-specialist in science. The unifying theme of the book is consideration of aspects of both natural and human-induced global environmental change. The two part organization according to this distinction allows for easy reading on specific topics. This book is useful for anyone interested in learning more about Earth's systems.

Our Changing Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change

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Our Changing Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change
Judith A. Mackenzie Fred T. Mackenzie
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: B000O8SGIQ

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Perfect for those interested in physics but who are not physicists or mathematicians, this book makes relativity so simple that a child can understand it. By replacing equations with diagrams, the book allows non-specialist readers to fully understand the concepts in relativity without the slow, painful progress so often associated with a complicated scientific subject. It allows readers not only to know how relativity works, but also to intuitively understand it.

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A flawed intro to relativity.......2007-02-20

This book provides a basic look at the What of relativity... but is seriously flawed when explaining the Why. And this is very problematic in a book that is constantly claiming that it's "showing" you why a fact about relativity is true. Epstein keeps "proving" things but when you really look at it he hasn't proven anything at all and you don't really understand relativity any better. For example, he loves schematic diagrams, and showing how something is true because it looks a certain way in a diagram. But just drawing something in a diagram and saying, "See, that's the way time works because that's how the line looks on the diagram" proves nothing. Why does the diagram represent reality? And why must the diagram be drawn in exactly the way he did? And the "diagram proofs" are just a symptom of the bigger problem here: a lack of valid argument to back up conclusions, and an overall lack of rigor throughout the book, from the terms used to the methods utilized for demonstration. Read this book if you are new to relativity and want to get an initial grasp of what it's about and the kind of phenomena it entails. But don't make the mistake of being fooled into thinking you're really undertsanding relativity, because for the most part you're not.

Helps developing a feel for relativity.......2007-01-03

This book is a precious aid to help you develop your intuition about both special and general relativity. If you, like me, are someone who relies and feels comfortable more with intuition then reasoning, memory and abstractions, you have probably experienced quite a bit of discomfort studying and thinking about relativity. In other areas of physics, even quantum physics, you might have been able to come up with some sort of intuitive feel, but relativity, just a big void and a sense of "what this guys are taking about?". It's just about the fact that light velocity and strong gravitational fields are so outside of our reach that our intuition has nothing to work with, not even the "little balls" of particle physics.
Well this book is really helpful in starting to develop a visual and "gut" feel about relativity. Sometimes the drawings get a bit too fancy and confused, and you should avoid the pitfall of being led to believe you areally understand relativity just because you made something out of this book, but still it's a worthy, interesting and unusual read that will surely add something to your understanding.

Einstein would have loved it.......2006-07-01

This is the best introductory book on relativity, period. What makes it different from others is how much it emphasizes a visual approach to the subject. The diagrams are not there merely to help you understand the main text; they are an integral part of the main text.

Even if you understand the basic concepts of relativity, you will probably learn something new. Consider, for instance, the following passage: "The reason you can't go faster than the speed of light is that... everything, including you, is always moving at the speed of light. How can you be moving if you are at rest in a chair? You are moving through time." Accompanying diagrams then clearly show how this is so, and how time dilation follows from it.

You will 'get' relativity after reading this book........2005-10-07

The theory of Relativity was Einstein's conceptual framework for explaining some weirdnesses physicists had uncovered about the way light waves, fast-moving objects, objects in heavy gravitational fields, etc. behave. Relativity is hard to understand partly because their behavior is hard to grasp -- it defies both one's normal intuition and the rules of Newtonian mechanics. So first off this book excels in explaining exactly what the weirdness is, what it was that had physicists scratching their heads in confusion and disbelief.

But Relativity is also hard to understand because of a lack of a simple explanation, a way of picturing what's going on. And this is the true value of this book, that it provides this type of concept.

By analogy, if you follow the motions of the planets with a telescope, you see them speeding up, slowing down, even reversing direction, in a way that would be hard to justify on simple principles... until you make the sun rather than the earth the stationary frame of reference. Then all that seemingly complicated motion reduces to simple elliptical orbits. And more importantly, this explanation gives you the sense of "getting it" conceptually. It's that kind of idea -- what the author calls a "myth" -- that this book uniquely provides for Relativity.

The ideas presented not only make Relativity comprehensible, they also hold up quantitatively (e.g. how much does one's clock slow down, how much does a body shrink, etc.)

Galileo's helio-centric writings got him into trouble with the Church, and he was forced to recant. In effect he said that he didn't mean that the Earth rotated around the Sun, only that the math is simpler with the Sun as a frame of reference. That the motions of the planets were calculable, but not comprehensible, was sufficient for the Church to spare his life.

To this day, Quantum physics remains mathematically rigorous and in perfect agreement with experiment, but no one understands it. It is my fondest wish that someone some day will come up with a conceptual touchstone for grasping Quantum physics that is as powerfully intuitive as what this author has come up with for Relativity.

I do have one caveat, which is that this book does not distinguish between Special and General Relativity. He never mentions uniform vs. accelerated motion. Although he does seem to explain some phenomena that I thought fell into General Relativity, I also thought I recognized one or two places where his explanation breaks down if General Relativity were taken into consideration.

Ideal introduction to relativity.......2003-03-14

I owe a lot to this book. I've since gone on to read more advanced books on relativity, quantum physics, and string theory. What makes this book special is that it will make relativity an intuitive concept. As relativity is a foundation for so many other things, I needed a book which would give me a rock solid foundation. The book made relativity so simple that a child would understand it. And not only understand it, but be utterly convinced that it is correct. I now understand how relativity works about as well as I do the law of conservation of energy, as an example.
After you read this, you will want to move on, and I recomment "Quantum Reality". It's not simple like this book, though. I haven't found any books that do for quantum physics what Epstien does for relativity.

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Relativity Visualized
Lewis Epstein
Manufacturer: Insight press
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ASIN: B000KT0ZCE

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The writings of the Marquis de Sade have recently attained notoriety in the canon of world literature. Now Sade himself is often celebrated as a heroic apostle of individual rights and a giant of philosophical thought. In this detailed investigative work, Laurence Bongie tests these claims and finds them unfounded and undeserved.

"A valuable correction to the perception of Sade as a profound thinker, a great writer, and a martyr to liberty. Drawing on original archival work, Bongie tries to illuminate Sade's childhood and his relationship with his parents. . . . Fluent and well-informed."—Library Journal

"Mr. Bongie . . . has written an investigation focusing on one aspect of Sade's character and development, his heretofore neglected relationship with his aristocratic mother. . . . A profitable selection."—Richard Bernstein, New York Times

"A welcome corrective. Bongie's book . . . aims to deflate the exalted claims made about the marquis by demonstrating that he was a monstrous character."—Scott Stossel, Boston Phoenix Literary Supplement

Sade: A Biographical Essay.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Modern Language Review

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Sade: A Biographical Essay.(Review) (book review): An article from: The Modern Language Review
John Phillips
Manufacturer: Modern Humanities Research Association
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Author: John Phillips
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2000
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 95 Issue: 3 Page: 840(2)

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Sade : A Biographical Essay
Laurence L. Bongie
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Sade: A Biographical Essay
Laurence L. Bongie
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