Neural Tissue Biomechanics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bilston, Lynne E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials, 3
• Subjects: Engineering.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Continuum mechanics.; Biomedical engineering.; Biomaterials.; Biomedical Engineering.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.

Damage to the central nervous system resulting from pathological mechanical loading can occur as a result of trauma or disease. Such injuries lead to significant disability and mortality. The peripheral nervous system, while also subject to injury from trauma and disease, also transduces physiologic...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to biomechanics of the nervous system
• Brain tissue properties
• Spinal cord properties
• Meninges properties
• Neural Mechanosensation/mechanotransduction
• Brain injury biomechanics and modeling
• SCI biomechanics
• Biomechanics of peripheral nerves and neuropathic pain
• Constitutive models for neural tissue properties
• Biomechanics and modelling of  other diseases
• Neurosurgical simulation
• Modelling of Spinal Cord Biomechanics
• in vitro models of neural biomechanics.