Overview
- Contains a selection of the best papers, revised and extended, presented at the 2013 NEUROTECHNIX congress
- Includes innovative research that highlights new advancements in neurotechnology
- Emphasizes both research and application of neurotechnologies to various disorders including dementia and developmental disorders
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience (NEUROSCI, volume 13)
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Table of contents (7 papers)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pedro Encarnação is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics of the Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal. He has received the 'Licenciatura' degree in 1994, the M.Sc. degree in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in 2002, all in Electrical and Computers Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. His current research interests include Rehabilitation Engineering, namely the use of robotic systems in the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities and nonlinear control of autonomous vehicles.
Ana Londral is a researcher at Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Faculty of Medicine - University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has received the 'Licenciatura' degree in Electrical Engineering (1999) from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, and the M.Sc. degree in Health Engineering (2007) from the Catholic University of Portugal. She is now concluding the Doctoral Programme in Neurosciences, from the Faculty of Medicine - University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her current research interests include Neuro Rehabilitation Engineering, namely in development and applied research of assistive devices and monitoring tools for persons with neurodegenerative diseases.
José Luis Pons Rovira obtained his PhD in Physics, Universidad Complutense Madrid, in 1997. In 1998 he was appointed as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Industrial Automation of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC. In 1999 he was awarded a position as Tenured Scientist, in 2007 a position as Research Scientist and eventually in 2008 a position as Full Professor, all of them at the same institution. Along these last ten years of research, Prof. Pons has also served as lecturer in Polytechnic University of Madrid (Robotics and Advanced Sensors and Actuators), Alfonso X El Sabio University (Systems theory and Control), Alcalá de Henares University (Robotics and AdvancedActuators).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neurotechnology, Electronics, and Informatics
Book Subtitle: Revised Selected Papers from Neurotechnix 2013
Editors: Ana Rita Londral, Pedro Encarnação, José Luis Pons Rovira
Series Title: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15997-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15996-6Published: 27 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37109-2Published: 15 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15997-3Published: 15 July 2015
Series ISSN: 2197-1900
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1919
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 110
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Neurology