Neural Engineering

Klaus-Peter Hoffmann received the doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Technology in Ilmenau, Germany, in 1987. He is currently a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the "Hochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes" and acting as the head of the Department Medical Engineering and Neuroprosthetics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering in St. Ingbert. From 1980 to 1993 he was a Research Fellow at the University clinic of Neurology in Jena and led the Neuroelectrodiagnostic group. In 1991/92, he was Visiting Honorary Research Fellow at the ASTON University in Birmingham (UK) for a period of four months. After 1993, he was acting as product line manager for devices in Neurology and Polysomnography at Madaus Schwarzer Medizintechnik GmbH & Co KG in Munich. Since 1996, he was Professor for Medical Devices and Medical Measurement Technology at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Köthen, Germany. He founded the Institute of Medicine and Technology and acted as leading director. He also established the Biomedical Engineering Program and taught the course on Biomedical Engineering.His main research interests include the fields of clinical neurophysiology especially saccadic eye movement and Neuromonitoring as well as the field of Microsystems in Medicine especially sensors and actuators for Neuroprosthetics. He is the coordinator of national and European projects, and the author of more than 80 scientific papers and 10 book articles. He is also a member of the Board of Micro medicine of the German Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE), head of the working group "Neuroprosthetics" and member of the Board of Elsevier Neurophysiologie-Labor, Journal of neurophysiologic function diagnostics.

Neural Engineering is the application of engineering and natural sciences in neural sciences. The book will be an introduction in and a general overview about the field of Neural Engineering. It reflects the results of the Neurobotics project, the fusion of neural sciences and robotics. So it closes the bow from biological basics via diagnostics, computing and therapy to bionic possibilities. The book allowed students, graduates and experts from other disciplines first steps to enter the Neural Engineering.

This introduction and general overview reflects the results of the Neurobotics project, a fusion of neural sciences and robotics. The text flows from biological basics through diagnostics, computing and therapy to bionic possibilities.

This practical-oriented book is a short and handy introduction in and a general overview about the field of Neural Engineering

Neurobiology.- Neural circuits and Neural control.- Neurophysiological monitoring.- Neural modeling and Neurocomputing.- Neural prostheses.- Neural robotic systems.