Biomedical Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience for Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Applications

  • 10h 42m
  • Jinglong Wu
  • IGI Global
  • 2013

New developments in medical technology have paved the way for the ongoing studies of cognitive neuroscience and biomedical engineering for healthcare. Their different but interconnected aspects of science and technology seek to provide new solutions for difficult healthcare problems and impact the future of the quality of life.

Biomedical Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience for Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Applications brings together researchers and practitioners, including medical doctors and health professionals, to provide an overview of the studies of cognitive neuroscience and biomedical engineering for healthcare. This book aims to be a reference for researchers in the related field aiming to bring benefits to their own research.

About the Author

Jinglong Wu was born in Jiutai, China, on August 8, 1958. He received a B.S. from Jilin Vocational Teachers College, China and M.S. from Kyoto University, Japan, both in electrical engineering, in 1984 and 1991, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in electric engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1994. He was an assistant professor at Ritsumeikan University, Japan, from 1994 to 1997, a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yamaguchi University, from 1997 to 1999. From 1999, he was an associate professor and from 2002, he was a full professor in the Department of Intelligent Mechanical Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University, Japan. Since 2008, he has been Professor and Laboratory Head, Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Japan. His current research interests are biomedical engineering, cognitive neuroscience, ergonomics and human science. Dr. Wu received the Best Paper Award of the IEEE Joint International Conference on Neural Network in 1993 and the SICE Best Paper Award in 2000. In 2003, he received the Gennai Grand Prize, Ozaki Foundation, Japan.

In this Book

  • A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Self and Mental Health
  • Executive Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease
  • Motion Control of an Omni-Directional Walker for Walking Support
  • Motor Cortex Activation During Mental Imagery of Walking—An fNIRS Study
  • Gait Rhythm of Parkinson's Disease Patients and an Interpersonal Synchrony Emulation System Based on Cooperative Gait
  • Android Robots as Telepresence Media
  • Crossmodal Interactions in Visual Competition
  • A Mirror Visual Feedback Therapy System Applying Virtual Reality Technology
  • Visual Attention in 3-D Space While Moving Forward
  • Cognitive Functions and Neuronal Mechanisms of Tactile Working Memory
  • The Crossmodal Between the Visual and Tactile for Motion Perception
  • The Effects of the Fixation Cue in Inhibition of Return
  • Implications of NIRS Brain Signals
  • Topography Estimation of Visual Evoked Potentials Using a Combination of Mathematical Models
  • Functional Neuroimaging of Acupuncture—A Systematic Review
  • Self-Body Recognition and its Impairment
  • Differences in Analysis Methods of the Human Uncinate Fasciculus Using Diffusion Tensor MRI
  • Neuronal Function in the Cortical Face Perception Network
  • Visual-Tactile Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention
  • Functional Role of the Left Ventral Occipito-Temporal Cortex in Reading
  • Language Processing in the Human Brain of Literate and Illiterate Subjects
  • Sleep Management Promotes Healthy Lifestyle, Mental Health, QOL, and a Healthy Brain
  • The Quantitative EEG Change in Parkinson's Disease
  • Rehabilitation of Elderly People with Dementia
  • Application of Prewhitening Beamformer with Linear Constraints for Correlated EEG Signal Source Estimation
  • Multi-Channel Template Extraction for Automatic EEG Spike Detection
  • Kanji Perception and Brain Function
  • Multimodal Neuroimaging to Visualize Human Visual Processing
  • Feedback-Related Negativity and its Clinical Implications
  • Evaluation of Olfactory Impairment in Parkinson's Disease Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
  • Evaluation of Cognitive Function in Migraine Patients—A Study Using Event-Related Potentials
  • Effects of Selective and Divided Attention on Audiovisual Interaction
  • Temporal Dependency of Multisensory Audiovisual Integration
  • Neural Mechanisms of Audiovisual Integration in Integrated Processing for Verbal Perception and Spatial Factors
  • Audiovisual Integration of Natural Auditory and Visual Stimuli in the Real-World Situation
  • Evaluation of Walking Motions with the Aid of Walkers Using Acceleration Sensors
  • Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff Models of Target-Based and Trajectory-Based Movements
  • Workers' Mental Health Problems and Future Perspectives in Japan—Psychological Job Stress Research
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