Smart prosthetics
Subtitle: exploring assistive devices for the body and mind : Task Group summaries : Conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies : Irvine, California : November 9-11, 2006 : National Academies Keck Futures Initiative.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780309104661
Subjects: Prostheses and Implants -- Congresses; Biotechnology -- methods -- Congresses; Prosthesis -- Congresses; Biotechnology -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Describe a framework for replacing damaged cortical tissue and fostering circuit integration to restore neurological function; title: Build a smart prosthesis that will grow with a child (such as a heart valve or cerebral shunt, or a self-healing prosthesis); title: Develop a smart prosthetic that can learn better and/or faster; title: Brain interfacing with materials: recording and stimulation electrodes; title: Refine technologies to create active orthotic devices; title: Structural tissue interfaces: enabling and enhancing continual maintenance and adaptation to mechanical and biologic factors; title: Sensory restoration of perception of limb movement and contact; title: Design a functional tissue prosthesis; title: Create hybrid prostheses that exploit activity-dependent processes; title: Can brain control guide or refine limb control?