Engineering Neural Motor Control: From Mechanisms to Neural Interfaces
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 644
Special Issue Editors
Interests: systems neuroscience; motor control; motor learning; neural coding; neuromodulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Neural control of movements is a key issue in neuroscience. Researchers have adopted concepts and technologies from other disciplines to propose working hypotheses, as well as acquire data and analyze data. In particular, engineering provides powerful tools that can be used to unveil and describe the time dynamics of a system, which is an important characteristic of movement. One of the final goals of neuroscience is to understand how to generate appropriate motor commands by the nervous system so as to control the musculoskeletal system within an environment, in which the nervous system should adapt to changes in the body and the environment. Knowledge of this adaptive control mechanism by the nervous system is growing. Not only has this led to greater insights into the nervous system, but this knowledge has also been applied to therapeutics. Electrical stimulation, for example, is used to modulate the nervous system for the treatment of epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. The brain–machine interface could be a potential prosthetic device for patients with some spinal cord injuries and diseases.
This Special Issue aims to collect recent studies focused on elucidating neural control mechanisms of the body and developing new methodologies translatable to research on the nervous system, as well as to further expand our knowledge that has potential applicability to therapeutics. We welcome authors to submit original papers, reviews, and other articles.
Dr. Eizo Miyashita
Dr. Yuki Ueyama
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- systems neuroscience
- computational neuroscience
- motor control
- motor learning
- motor dysfunction
- rehabilitation
- neuromodulation
- human argumentation
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