Analog Vlsi Circuits for Biosensors , Neural Signal Processing and Prosthetics
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Title of Document: ANALOG VLSI CIRCUITS FOR BIOSENSORS, NEURAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND PROSTHETICS. Alfred M. Haas Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Martin Peckerar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Stroke, spinal cord injury and neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and Parkinson’s debilitate their victims by suffocating, cleaving communication between, and/or poisoning entire populations of geographically correlated neurons. Although the damage associated with such injury or disease is typically irreversible, recent advances in implantable neural prosthetic devices offer hope for the restoration of lost sensory, cognitive and motor functions by remapping those functions onto healthy cortical regions. The research presented in this thesis is directed toward developing enabling technology for totally implantable neural prosthetics that could one day restore lost sensory, cognitive and motor function to the victims of debilitating neural
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