ECE 590 Neural Engineering Student:____________________
Spring 2008 Nathalia Peixoto
HOMEWORK 7
Due Thursday, April 3rd
1. Discuss the relevance of muscle contraction to the development of neural
prosthetic devices.
2. Describe, in terms of ionic fluxes and electric charges, how the
depolarization and repolarization of an action potential occurs (use at least
Na and K).
3. Prepare 10±3 slides about your project (you will present them to me,
individually, during the second or third week of April). REQUIREMENTS:
make the presentation with white background. Print 2 slides/sheet. I need
a hard copy so I can go through them and give you feedback on each
slide. If you need guidance on what to write on each slide, here’s some
help:
a. Title/author/affiliation
b. Outline
c. Background (physiological basis, explanation of where the idea
comes from, maybe clinical applications)
d. Main body of your project (at least three slides with figures, ideas
described in bullets. Add references if you take images or ideas
from papers or websites).
e. Your own analysis of the ideas presented. Problems you identified.
How to solve them (here would be a good place to add your own
block diagram, your own words/graphs/pictures.
f. Conclusions / future work
