An excellent resource to get a more comprehensive review of ANNs is Neural Network Design (http://hagan.okstate.edu/nnd.html http://hagan.okstate.edu/nnd.html).

An excellent resource to get a more comprehensive review of ANNs is Neural Network Design (http://hagan.okstate.edu/nnd.html http://hagan.okstate.edu/nnd.html). Unfortunately, the book itself is out of print, but that link has some sample chapters and used copies are floating around. The book was written by the authors of the Neural Network Toolbox for MATLAB, so naturally all the examples and demos referenced are in MATLAB.