December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 35m
English
Erik O. Gabrielsson, Daniel T. Simon and Magnus Berggren
Linköping University, Department of Science and Technology, Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Bredgatan 33, 60174, Norrköping, Sweden
Luigi Galvani is considered to be the pioneer with respect to the study of and early experiments in bioelectricity. In the 1780s, he discovered that detached leg muscles from dead frogs could be stimulated to twitch by electric potentials generated from metal electrodes. Since then, the constant advancement of technology and our understanding of human physiology and neuroscience have spurred the development of devices, implants, and techniques, such as pacemakers and deep-brain ...
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