The need for understanding and engaging the patient as consumer of products developed by neural engineering

Jennifer French; Dawn Bardot; Emily Graczyk; Allison Hess-Dunning; J. Luis Lujan; Megan Moynahan; Winny Tan; Ronald Triolo; Adeline Zbrzeski

doi:10.1088/1741-2552/aac668

The need for understanding and engaging the patient as consumer of products developed by neural engineering

Jennifer French, Dawn Bardot, Emily Graczyk, Allison Hess-Dunning, J. Luis Lujan, Megan Moynahan, Winny Tan, Ronald Triolo, Adeline Zbrzeski

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Original language	English (US)
Article number	040201
Journal	Journal of neural engineering
Volume	15
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/aac668
State	Published - 2018

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Biomedical Engineering
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

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