Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 TreesCable 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 FieldsExtracellular 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 Paleocognition�a�?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 ModelsStochastic 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