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Bioinspired devices : emulating nature's assembly and repair process /
A goal of clinicians is to restore the body and brain function of an individual who has suffered injury and loses capabilities such as walking, using the hands, speaking, remembering, and planning ahead. There is great optimism within the clinical community that we may be able to use scientific prin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Biological inspiration from nature's building and repair processes: Bioinspired devices as parts of complex systems
- How nature builds: physical law, morphogenesis, and dynamical systems
- What nature builds: materials and devices
- Building devices the way that nature does
- Part II. Structure-function, development, and vulnerabilities of nervous systems: Nature's nervous system networks
- Human nervous system: development and vulnerability
- How nature remodels and repairs neural circuits
- Part III. Understanding and emulating nature's response to injury or damage: Neuroprosthetics: the embodiment of devices
- Neurorehabilitation for remodeling and repairing injured nervous systems
- Toward devices that are seamless parts of collective, adaptive, and emergent systems.