(Part 2) Best bioengineering books according to redditors
We found 85 Reddit comments discussing the best bioengineering books. We ranked the 62 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
I (male, 82 kg, UK) was coached to erg at a drag factor of 130, so that's what I do for both endurance and sprints. That's in the range recommended by Concept2:
> Adults
> - Male heavyweight (over 75 kg) - 125-140
> - Male lightweight (under 75 kg) - 120-135
> - Female heavyweight (over 61.5 kg) - 120-130
> - Female lightweight (under 61.5 kg) - 115-125
Now, The Complete Guide to Indoor Rowing makes a compelling argument that for prolonged erging, lower drag factors can reduce injury without compromising training value. Rowing Australia heeds that advice and recommends the following instead:
> Adults
> - Male heavyweight (over 75 kg) - 115
> - Male lightweight (under 75 kg) - 105
> - Female heavyweight (over 61.5 kg) - 105
> - Female lightweight (under 61.5 kg) - 95
The other way to think about this is that the drag factor is intended to mimic the type of boat you row in. Valery Kleshnev has worked that out for all the various boat classes (accounting for work done by other rowers in the boat and sweep/sculling blades contributing to a lighter or heavier feel to the boat, and, frankly, a number of other metrics that I don't understand yet). Then, according to that link above, the appropriate drag factors would be:
> - 1x - 127
> - 2x - 103
> - 4x - 84
> - 2- - 127
> - 4- - 100
> - 8+ - 86
... which I'd be happy to follow, but, whoof, good luck trying to convince my coach to let me erg at df=86 ;).
>Companies will compete to offer the best facilities to house your developing child.
Oh, great, let's bring capitalism into yet another aspect of our lives. You should read Crepuscular Dawn. The procedures you speak of will only be available to people who can afford it. Then what happens? You start creating a superior race. Super intelligent, super humans, if you could call them humans at all. Humans like you and I, born out of a vagina, without genetic engineering will become subhumans, likely 22nd century slaves to the super humans. Eventually the subhumans will die off, basically a man-induced evolution. By doing this, you would in effect be killing off your own kind.
I like the egg idea much better.
This book is good for that:
Kinesiology: The Mechanics and Pathomechanics of Human Movement
And here is another good book for learning muscle testing techniques:
Muscles: Testing and Function, with Posture and Pain
I've personally referenced Human Biomaterials Applications numerous times. There are lots of biomaterial reference books. I haven't read many, but I know this one has been handy.
The biomedical engineering handbook is a great resource, as is the 2nd part-Medical devices and systems. These two of the 3 part volume would be the core. The 3rd part (electrical) may be less than essential for someone more biomechanically focused.
Another good reference is the Clinical Engineering Handbook. Not sure if your sister is going to go the direction of Clinical Engineering, but there's tons of relevant information that any engineer would be well served to know, since their products will (hopefully) end up in the clinic.
Merrill and Bontrager tend to be recommended by Americans, most of us Brits go for Clark's Positioning in Radiography.
Not read the 13th edition of the big boy book myself (basically everywhere has 12th edition, and I am not paying for a new one lol), but the only thing I disagree with in the first edition (since updated to 2nd edition) of the [little baby handbook for students and such] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Clarks-Handbook-Radiographers-Companion-Essential/1498726992/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=R5H91P80E0SZ5ZKVP0QH) was the ankle section, they describe a correct mortice view, but then the demonstrated image has their centring... somewhat high... :v
The main other book I consider a "must have" is Accident and Emergency Radiology, but as an ortho resident, you are likely past that (it is basic image interpretation, suitable for a junior doc or the average band 5/6 radiographer), though you might consider giving it a flick through anyway, it's not a long read, and is a very good quality book.
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Edit: Interesting thing about Clark's - go back a few versions from the 12th edition and they were inexplicably using nude patients in a solid half of the demonstration images, flicking between covered and uncovered for seemingly no reason. God knows why. In any of the modern ones, they are all wearing swimsuits, at least!
By modifying synaptic strength. Synapses are the points of connection between neurons.
I'll go all technical first, then explain the process in more common terms.
There is a famous dictum in neuroscience: neurons that fire together, wire together. This means that the synaptic efficiency between cells is increased when they tend to fire at the same time. This means that there will be a change so that the ability of cell A to make cell B fire will enhance. What's the nature of this change?
Glutamate is the brain's most common excitatory neurotransmitter. "Excitatory" in this case means that it increases the likelihood of an action potential going off in the receiving cell. Glutamate is released across the synapse and binds to glutamate receptors on the neighbouring cell. Let's look at two of them: AMPA and NMDA.
AMPA receptors are simple. Glutamate binds to them, they open ion channels that change the internal chemistry so that the likelihood of an action potential increases. Action potentials are all-or-nothing events. Cells either fire (1) or don't (0). So it's binary and rather neat.
NMDA receptors are similar to AMPA receptors, but they are different in that they require AMPA receptors to have been activated first before they are themselves activated. The membrane needs to be depolarized (brought closer to action potential threshold). This is because the ion channels opened by NMDA receptor activation are blocked by magnesium ions when the membrane is not sufficiently depolarized.
When NMDA receptors are activated, their associated ion channels lets in Ca^(2+) (calcium ions). This influx of Ca^(2+) leads to the activation of kinases (CAMKII, PKA, PKC, MAPK) and phosphotases. In the short run, this leads to the addition or subtraction of the number of AMPA receptors on the postsynaptic membrane. More AMPA = greater synaptic strength. Less AMPA = weaker synaptic strength. In the long run, there's a growth of dendritic spines.
All of the above is covered in great detail in introductory neuroscience textbooks. I recommend Kandel (highly detailed) or Purves (simple).
An important element in the process of synaptic plasticity is the Arc protein. Remarkably, Arc works like a virus. It encases mRNA in capsids and allows for interneuronal communication. Recently, it was found that one of its major roles is to strike a balance. When one synapse is strengthening, others are weakened. So there's a Darwinistic struggle involved even at this level.
So information is stored in synaptic connections. How is it used?
The information comes in the pattern of action potentials over time. This is called the spike train. Remember how I said action potentials are binary events? This means a spike train can look something like this: 00010111100100. This is clearly a neural code. It's entirely possible to decode it. For instance, you can listen in to a population of head-direction cells in the anterior thalamus of a rat while also recording its actual head movement. When you find neurons that respond to head direction (they spike more frequently when the head is oriented in a certain direction), you can later use the activity of these cells to know the rat's head direction at any time. If you also record the activity of speed cells, you can also trace the exact trajectory of the rat. This means that you can actually download neural data and accurately interpret it.
This is covered in Principles of Neural Coding.
It's usually difficult to understand something when technical terms are used; they often get in the way. So let's try to understand this using everyday terms.
Information is carried in the flow of energy through the brain. Information is stored by making it a little more difficult or a little easier for energy to flow down a certain path. Take associations, for instance. By repeatedly associating two different things, you are strengthening neural pathways between the two. If you don't use them, they will grow weaker with time.
https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Biomechanics-Lower-Extremities-1e/dp/0801679869/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525012505&sr=8-1&keywords=valmassy+biomechanics
Are you looking for an anatomical textbook style on broad understanding of the heart, or something a little more in depth? For instance, I have this handbook, which on Amazon is expensive but you can find it elsewhere. It's a good resource, but it isn't exactly exciting. It's pretty broad in my opinion but includes a lot of research and good references.
Well then you have a poor grasp on human mechanics. You can start here and once you're done that you'll probably understand why he fell.
The professor for my undergraduate "Transport Phenomena in Living Systems" wrote the book for our class. Not sure what you are hoping to apply this knowledge towards but you may find it a very useful resource. It was well-written book as I remember it.
Biotransport: Principles and Applications - Roselli, Diller
My Professor (Diller) is the former chairman of the ME and BME department an expert on heat transfer. In fact he was the expert witness on that multi-million McDonald's coffee burn case
Basic Introduction to Bioelectromagnetics, Third Edition (2018); ISBN - 9781498780018
https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Introduction-Bioelectromagnetics-Third-Cynthia/dp/1498780016
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Handbook of Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, Fourth Edition - Two Volume Set (2019); ISBN - 1138733113
https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Biological-Effects-Electromagnetic-Fields/dp/1138733113
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Architectural Electromagnetic Shielding Handbook: A Design and Specification Guide (1992); ISBN - 0879422874
https://www.amazon.es/Architectural-Electromagnetic-Shielding-Handbook-Specification/dp/0879422874
Disclaimer: I haven't read the following recommendations, but I was convinced to read them when I finish my current stash of books.
I don't work in the medical field, but my biggest hobby is powerlifting and I've spend many years doing tons of reading in scientific litterature about training and such. And when I was recommended the followings books by another powerlifter it seemed like a great opportunity to learn more. Biomechanics For Dummies and Anatomy and Physiology For Dummies
To the example of Stanford, they wrote an excellent book on finding and solving problems in the medical device context that is largely the bible for creating new medical devices.
The book grew out of an interdisciplinary institute between their MBA, engineering school, and med school programs that's considered the gold standard.
http://biodesign.stanford.edu/
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https://www.amazon.com/Biodesign-Process-Innovating-Medical-Technologies/dp/110708735X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=biodesign&qid=1555526568&s=gateway&sr=8-1
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University of Michigan and Columbia are two of the other big players who play the medical device patent game well.
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My experience is in medical devices, but there are plenty of examples where faculty may have subject matter expertise in things like specific areas of signal processing or metalurgy. Those labs tend to spin off additional startups and labs operated by post-docs and alumni of the initial research leader's work. For example, there is a guy at University of Louisville who has worked on something like 14 commercialized surgical tools in his specific surgical niche.
Biomechanical Basis of Human Movements by chance?
> when I did it few years back i found that local amount of muscle mass(eg upper arm or calf) can throw off the result significantly
Can you expand on what you mean by this?
>I wish there was an algorithm that could compute it all but as far as I know there still isnt.
That sounds like a super fun project, I'll look into it
I didn't really study that too much to be honest, but based on my understanding: Since serotonin facilitates the synthesis of melatonin during sleep, I would imagine that inhibiting reuptake would affect sleep by affecting melatonin levels and most likely negatively affect your ability to achieve deep sleep and/or transition into REM sleep. But serotonin increase during periods of wake have a negative feedback to then promote sleep. So maybe abnormal serotonin levels can make you sleepy but SSRI's can make getting good sleep harder to achieve. It would probably (read: definitely) also affect the rhythm of your sleep which is just as important as the amount of sleep you get (my studies were in biological rhythms so that seems to be what I always come back to, circadian phases and such).
This was one of my course materials that may have more information if you're interested, again I didn't focus as much on abnormal/induced chemical modulation and the effects they could have:
https://www.amazon.com/Chronobioengineering-Introduction-Biological-Applications-Engineering/dp/1598296353
You can ask Aubrey de Grey [email protected] , hovewer, would you like to work in molecular nanotechnology? Make CAD program for designing nanomachines for medicine?
https://www.amazon.com/Nanomedical-Device-Systems-Design-Possibilities/dp/0849374987
I feel dirty for recommending one I haven't read yet, but Jonathan Gressel's "Genetic Glass Ceilings" has been recommended to me several times. It's next on my Amazon list.
http://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Glass-Ceilings-Transgenics-Biodiversity/dp/0801887194