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Biomedical cybernetics

Biomedical cybernetics deals with investigating signal processing, decision making and control structures in living organisms. Applications of this research field are in biology, ecology and health sciences.

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Fields

Biological cybernetics
Medical cybernetics

Methods

Connectionism
Decision theory
Information theory
Systeomics
Systems theory

References

Barabási, A. L. and Z. N. Oltvai (2004). “Network Biology: Understanding the Cell's Functional Organization.” Nature Reviews Genetics 5 : 101-13.
Fricke, O., G. Lehmkuhl and E. Schoenau (2006). “The principle of regulation in biology--from bone to eating behavior.” Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes. 114 (4): 197-203.
Kitano, H. (Hrsg.) (2001). Foundations of Systems Biology. Cambridge (Massachusetts), London, MIT Press, ISBN 0262112663.

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General subfields and scientists in Cybernetics

subfields

Polycontexturality · Second-order cybernetics · Catastrophe theory · Connectionism · Control theory · Decision theory · Information theory · Semiotics · Synergetics · Biological cybernetics · Biomedical cybernetics · Biorobotics · Computational neuroscience · Homeostasis · Management cybernetics · Medical cybernetics · New Cybernetics · Neuro cybernetics · Sociocybernetics · Emergence · Artificial intelligence

Cyberneticians

William Ross Ashby · Anthony Stafford Beer · Claude Bernard · Ludwig von Bertalanffy · Valentin Braitenberg · Gordon S. Brown · Heinz von Foerster · Charles François · Jay Forrester · Buckminster Fuller · Ernst von Glasersfeld · Francis Heylighen · Erich von Holst · Stuart Kauffman · Sergei P. Kurdyumov · Niklas Luhmann · Warren McCulloch · Humberto Maturana · Talcott Parsons · Gordon Pask · Walter Pitts · Alfred Radcliffe-Brown · Robert Trappl · Valentin Turchin · Francisco Varela · Frederic Vester · Stuart Umpleby · John N. Warfield · Kevin Warwick · Norbert Wiener

Category: Biology