Neurotechnology
The neuro technology (Engl. Neural engineering ) is a relatively young research discipline that engineering methods utilized to both the function of the nervous system to explore, and to support this and to influence as well. The high interdisciplinarity of the field can be recognized by the fact that there are methods and approaches from clinical neurology (functional imaging) and neurosurgery (neuroprosthetics), theoretical neurosciences ( computational neuroscience and neurocybernetics) with experimental neurophysiology , electrical engineering , signal processing ,Automation technology , computer science , microsystem technology and nanotechnology combined.
Neurotechnology distinguishes between two different approaches: Reverse approaches try to describe and understand existing neural systems in order to gain technological applications from them. In contrast, the forward- looking approaches try to develop technologies that are then to be used in biological systems. The most important area for the latter line of research are the so-called brain-computer interfaces ( brain-computer interface ) or the wide range of Neuroprosthetics .
An increasing number of publications can be classified under the term neurotechnology, the first specific journals to be mentioned are The Journal of Neural Engineering , Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation , and IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering .