Biomedical Cybernetics

The biomedical cybernetics deals with the study of signal processing, regulatory and decision-making processes in living organisms . Applications of this transdisciplinary research field are in biology , ecology and medicine .

Differentiation areas

• Medical cybernetics
• Biological cybernetics

Methods

• Decision theory
• Connectionism
• Message theory
• Systems biology
• Systems theory

literature

• Albert-László Barabási , Zoltán N. Oltvai: Network Biology: Understanding the Cell's Functional Organization. In: Nature Reviews Genetics . Vol. 5, 2004, pp. 101-113.
• Oliver Fricke, Gerd Lehmkuhl , Eckhard Schoenau: The principle of regulation in biology - from bone to eating behavior. In: Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes. Vol. 114, No. 4, 2006, pp. 197-203, doi : 10.1055 / s-2006-924068 .
• Hiroaki Kitano (Ed.): Foundations of Systems Biology. MIT Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) / London 2001, ISBN 0-262-11266-3 .

Web links

Commons : Biomedical Cybernetics  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Vertical Biocybernetics Wiki (English)
• Information portal on medical cybernetics
• List processor of the Ruhr University Bochum for biomedical cybernetics
• International Medical Association for Biocybernetic Medicine eV