Neural and brain modeling /

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Main Authors: MacGregor, Ronald J.
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: San Diego, Calif. :
Publication Dates: 1987.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Neuroscience
Subjects:
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780124642607
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xii, 643 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780323143844
0323143849
Index Number: QP376
CLC: R338.2
Contents: ""Front Cover""; ""Neural and Brain Modeling""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Part I: Models of the Nervous System: A Review of the Literature""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""Roots of Neural and Brain Modeling in Engineering""; ""Stratification of Variables""; ""Bibliography""; ""Section I: Generic Mechanisms""; ""Chapter 2. Single Neurons: Spike Generation""; ""Single-Neuron Physiology""; ""Digital Computer Neuromimes""; ""Electronic Analog Neuromimes""; ""Continuous Mathematical Neuromimes""; ""Stochastic Neuromimes""; ""Bibliography""
""Chapter 3. Single Neurons: Dendritic Trees""""Cable Theory Model of Core Conduction""; ""Passive Dendritic Trees: The Models and Theories of Wilfred Rall""; ""Models of Active Conductances in Dendrites""; ""Responses to Activation in Dendritic Spines""; ""Contemporary Simulation Models of Overall Information Processing in Neurons with Dendritic Trees""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 4. Biophysical and Chemical Levels of Control and Intercellular Communication""; ""Biophysical and Chemical Control""; ""Chemical Synaptic Transmission""; ""The Variety of Synaptic Types""
""Interneuronal Communication by Electric Currents and Fields""""Extracellular Magnetic Fields""; ""Models of Growth of Neurons and Neuronal Networks""; ""Bibliography""; ""Section II: Models of Specific NeuronalSystems and Networks""; ""Chapter 5. ""Simpler Systems"" and Invertebrate Systems""; ""Experimentally Based Network Wiring Models for ""Simpler"" Neuronal Systems""; ""Simulation Models of ""Simpler"" Systems""; ""Models of Sensory Information Processing in Prevertebrates""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 6. Early and Lower-Level Vertebrate Systems""; ""Autonomic Systems""
""Motor and Sensorimotor Systems""""Sensory Systems""; ""Central Control""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 7. Limbic Systems""; ""Appetitive/Motivational/Reward/Emotional""; ""Conditioning and Paleocognitiona ?The Hippocampus""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 8. Neocortical and Thalamocortical Systems""; ""Anterior Unit for Programming and Regulation""; ""Posterior Unit for Receiving and Processing Information""; ""Global Electrophysiology""; ""Bibliography""; ""Section III: Generic Operations, Systems, and Networks""; ""Chapter 9. Neural Networks""
""Systems Theoretical and Computer Simulation Models""""Stochastic Systems Theoretic Models""; ""Fluid Mechanical Models""; ""Models of Learning and Memory in Neural Networks""; ""Models of Neural Networks as Cognitive or Functional Operators ""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 10. Cognitive Operations and Structures""; ""The Information Processing Paradigm of Brain Function""; ""The Information Processing Paradigm in Learning and Memory""; ""Cognitive Operations and Structures""; ""Brain Operations in Language""; ""Bibliography""; ""Chapter 11. Clinical Models""; ""Bibliography""