Introduction to Neuromuscular Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Introduction to Neuromuscular Engineering (subject code ME03031021) as prescribed for BE · Semester 3 divides the course into 5 units, covering 32 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME03031021)Unit 1 Structure of Skeletal Muscles, Neuromuscular Synapse, Muscles contraction
- and its mechanism
- Fast and slow motor units and functional role
- Presynaptic and postsynaptic inhibition
- Monosynaptic reflexes
- Oligosynaptic reflexes
- Polysynaptic reflexes
- Voluntary control of single muscle
- EMG pattern during Isotonic movement & Isometric contraction
- Nerve terminal regeneration in neuromuscular junction
Unit 2 Overview of the cellular components of the nervous system, neural circuits,
- organization of human nervous system, and neural signaling
- Somatosensory system
- Sensory contributions to movement control
- Contributors of muscular fatigue
- Muscular mechanism of fatigue
- Spinal mechanism of fatigue
- Adaptive changes during fatigue
- Abnormal fatigue
- Numerical approaches limb and musculotendon kinematics
- Neural control of eccentric vs. concentric contractions
- Modeling of the neuromusculoskeletal system
Unit 3 Single value decomposition, Monte Carlos method, Hypothesis testing with
- Monte Carlos method
- Analysis of Synaptic transmission using monte Carlos method
- Monte Carlos simulation of vesicular release
- Monte Carlos simulation of buffered diffusion into and out of model synapse
- Kinematic and electromyography analysis of limb movement
Unit 4 Lower motor neuron circuits, Upper motor neuron control of the brainstem
- and spinal cord
- Sensorimotor brain maps
- Brain plasticity and neurorehabilitation
Unit 5 Review of recent advances in neuromuscular engineering
- brain-machine interfaces
- deep brain and transcranial stimulation
- brain imaging
- muscle and brain implants