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Brain Leitmotifs The Structure and Activity Patterns of Neuronal Networks
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Brain Leitmotifs [electronic resource] : The Structure and Activity Patterns of Neuronal Networks / by Roger Traub, Andreas Draguhn.
ISBN
9783031545375
Edition
1st ed. 2024.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XVI, 272 p.) 128 illus., 84 illus. in color.
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Summary
This book tackles the question of why the brain is so difficult to fully understand. In neuroscience, data are acquired and analyzed with astonishing techniques and accumulate rapidly. Nevertheless, try to explain how a person can think or why there is such a condition as schizophrenia, and it appears that we really know little. To approach these difficulties, the authors first present a number of case studies in which the operation of a neural circuit is worked out in some detail and, at the same time, the functional significance of the operation is also understood. These examples are complicated in their biologic specifics but are conceptually straightforward. The examples are hoped to provoke an appreciation for what neuroscience can accomplish. The authors then develop some thoughts on how these issues can be addressed----instead of considering cognition in general, taking instead a subset of cognition that does lend itself to formal description.
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Language
English
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April 10, 2024
Contents
Preface
Introduction: how should one think about nervous systems?
Basic properties of biological neurons and synapses
Memory and classification in the brain and artificial systems
Working memory
Central Pattern Generators
Reinforcement learning and a possible application (birdsong)
Complexities of cortex and the need for detailed models
Gap junctions and very fast oscillations
Synchronization through excitatory synapses: epilepsy but also conscious perception
Oscillation synchronization, synaptic plasticity and cell assemblies
Cortical delta rhythm, spike-wave epilepsy, and cognition
Cortical up-states
Sharp-wave/ripples - a special up-state?
Some application to disease: epilepsy, gap junctions and plateau potentials
Conclusions
References
Glossary
Index.
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