UNDERSTANDING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE
Written by Sid Deutsch, Alice Deutsch
Published by IEEE Press
in 1993
ISBN: 0879422963
- Categorised in:
- ENGINEERING
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- MEDICAL
- PHYSICS
UNDERSTANDING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE
Written by Sid Deutsch, Alice Deutsch.
Stock no. 1707664
1st.
1993.
Softcover.
Very good condition.
Describing how the nervous system (including the brain) communicates with, sends signals to, and receives input from the sensory organs. Provides engineers with simplified models of the auditory system, visual system and how the brain functions Card wraps. 394 pages. ISBN: 0879422963. Pencil annotation inside rear cover. Slight rubbing to spine and corners. Light creases to page corners.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- 1. Excitable Tissue
- 2. Sensory Receptors
- 3. Generatioon of the Action Potential
- 4. Propagation of the Action Potential
- 5. Dendritic Summation
- 6. Lateral Inhibition
- 7. Simple Neuronal Systems
- 8. Skeletal Muscle Circuits
- 9. The Auditory System
- 10. The Eye as a Transducer
- 11. Visusal Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, and "Household Chores"
- 12. About the Brain
- Index