Neural engineering

NeuroEngineering, or neural engineering, focuses on using scientific methods to understand and model the nervous system, and uses this knowledge to engineer systems that interact with, augment, or mimic nervous system functionality.

This field represents the convergence between neuroscience and biomedical engineering. A key area of this research involves the interaction between electronics and living neural tissue. The field expands from modelling the function of the neurons through to developing technologies such as the bionic eye, bionic ear, neuroprosthetics and brain–computer interfaces.

Neural engineering takes an interdisciplinary approach to solving emerging problems in neuroscience toward the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of neurological conditions.