This text is about neural modeling, i.e., about neurons and biological neural networks (BNNs) and how their dynamic behavior can be quantitatively described. It was written for graduate students in biomedical engineering, but will also be of interest to neurophysiologists, computational neurobiologists, and biophysicists who are concerned with how neural systems process information and how these processes can be modeled.
Breath sounds have long been important indicators of respiratory health and disease. Acoustical monitoring of respiratory sounds has been used by researchers for various diagnostic purposes. A few decades ago, physicians relied on their hearing to detect any symptomatic signs in respiratory sounds of their patients.
The purpose of The Handbook of Neuroprosthetic Methods is threefold. First, the book combines the most commonly employed concepts, applications, and knowledge from the many disciplines associated with neuroprosthetic research in a clear and instructive way.
This book is intended for the physician, nurse, student or technician that occasionally comes in contact with patients who have implanted heart rhythm control devices. It is meant as a reference and basic resource to provide quick explanations and answers to situations that are likely to be encountered relating to pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators.
The past thirty years have witnessed the birth, growth, and evolution of clinical electrophysiology from a field whose initial goals were the understanding of arrhythmia mechanisms to one of significant therapeutic impact. The development and refinement of implantable devices and catheter ablation have made non-pharmacologic therapy a treatment of choice for most arrhythmias encountered in clinical practice.
It has been almost five years since our last edition was published. Much has happened in the world of cardiology and especially device therapy since then. A major advance has been the development of cardiac resynchronization therapy as heralded by the development of biventricular pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs).
To my mind electrocardiogram interpretation is all about pattern recognition. This collection of 18 articles covers all the important patterns encountered in emergency medicine. Whether you are a novice or an experienced clinician, I hope that you find this book enjoyable and clinically relevant.
The inexorable flux of time has once again changed the electroencephalography (EEG) scene: a complex landscape with many outcroppings of the old classic electroencephalogram. Has it been a period of progress that separates us from the days of work on the fourth edition?
I assume that the reader of this book will have the level of knowledge of the ECG that is contained in The ECG Made Easy, to which this is a companion volume.
