Download or read book Methods and Models in Neurophysics written by Carson Chow and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. E. Marder, Experimenting with theory -- 2. A. Borysuk and J. Rinzel, Understanding neuronal dynamics by geometrical dissection of minimal models -- 3. D. Terman, Geometry singular perturbation analysis of neuronal dynamics -- 4. G. Mato, Theory of neural synchrony -- 5. M. Shelley, Some useful numerical techniques for simulating integrate-and-fire networks -- 6. D. Golomb, Propagation of pulses in cortical networks: the single-spike approximation -- 7. M. Tsodyks, Activity-dependent transmission in neocortical synapses -- 8. H. Sompolinsky and J. White, Theory of large recurrent networks: from spikes to behavior -- 9. C. van Vreeswijk, Irregular activity in large networks of neurons -- 10. N. Brunel, Network models of memory -- 11. P. Bressloff, Pattern formation in visual cortex -- 12. F. Wolf, Symmetry breaking and pattern selection in visual cortical development -- 13. A. Treves and Y. Roudi, On the evolution of the brain -- 14. E. Brown, Theory of point processes for neural syst ...

Download or read book The Neurophysics of Human Behavior written by Mark E. Furman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do brain, mind, matter, and energy interact? Can we create a comprehensive model of the mind and brain, their interactions, and their influences? Synthesizing research from neuroscience, physics, biology, systems science, information science, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, The Neurophysics of Human Behavior advances a unified theory of

Download or read book Neurophysics written by Alwyn Scott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1977 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Electric Fields of the Brain written by Paul L. Nunez and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work investigates the connections between psychology and physiology. Topics include synaptic sources, electrode placement, choice of reference, volume conduction, power and coherence, projection of scalp potentials to dura surface, dynamic signatures of conscious experience and more.

Download or read book The Transparent Becoming of World written by Gordon G. Globus and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness. After critiquing the traditional views of direct realism, indirect realism and idealism, the continual becoming of world is explained by a novel integration of process dynamics, as formulated by Whitehead, Heidegger and Bohm, with the burgeoning field of quantum neurophilosophy. A rich ontological duality newly opened by quantum brain theory is exploited: the “between-two” of dual quantum modes. Existence as world-thrownness is between-two in waking and dreaming alike. This highly original interdisciplinary book may be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, consciousness researchers, indeed anyone attracted to the enigma of their own lived existence. (Series A)

Download or read book Quantum Closures and Disclosures written by Gordon G. Globus and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This surprising rapprochement between a powerful tradition within continental philosophy and the 20th-century quantum revolution in science is fruitfully applied to crucial issues in philosophy, brain science, mathematics and psychiatry."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Biophysics of Computation written by Christof Koch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neural network research often builds on the fiction that neurons are simple linear threshold units, completely neglecting the highly dynamic and complex nature of synapses, dendrites, and voltage-dependent ionic currents. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons challenges this notion, using richly detailed experimental and theoretical findings from cellular biophysics to explain the repertoire of computational functions available to single neurons. The author shows how individual nerve cells can multiply, integrate, or delay synaptic inputs and how information can be encoded in the voltage across the membrane, in the intracellular calcium concentration, or in the timing of individual spikes.Key topics covered include the linear cable equation; cable theory as applied to passive dendritic trees and dendritic spines; chemical and electrical synapses and how to treat them from a computational point of view; nonlinear interactions of synaptic input in passive and active dendritic trees; the Hodgkin-Huxley model of action potential generation and propagation; phase space analysis; linking stochastic ionic channels to membrane-dependent currents; calcium and potassium currents and their role in information processing; the role of diffusion, buffering and binding of calcium, and other messenger systems in information processing and storage; short- and long-term models of synaptic plasticity; simplified models of single cells; stochastic aspects of neuronal firing; the nature of the neuronal code; and unconventional models of sub-cellular computation.Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons serves as an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in cellular biophysics, computational neuroscience, and neural networks, and will appeal to students and professionals in neuroscience, electrical and computer engineering, and physics.

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Download or read book Practical Neurophysics written by Karl Edward Misulis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Atomic physics is the perfect place to start a book on neuro-technology. It all begins with physics. Throughout this chapter and through the rest of the book we will concentrate on the interesting and essential details, without getting too far into the formulaic weeds. We will presume a foundation in basic physics, physiology, and some knowledge of neuroscience. In assembling this book we have brought together physicians, physiologists, and physicists, so we anticipate the readership may be of as broad a distribution"--

Download or read book NEUROPHYSICS STEM CELL PHYSICS AND GENOMIC PHYSICS Beat Wave Driven Free Electron Laser Beam Interactions with the Living Matter written by V. Alexander STEFAN and published by Stefan University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS A. The Physics of the Living Matter B. The Newton Wisdom: Autonomy of the Processes in Nature C. Topions: the Brain Neurocenters D. Neurophysics, Stem Cell Physics, Genomic Physics, and Public Health E. Laser Brain Interaction within the Brain Topions. The “Immortality” Topion? F. Bioethics and the Interaction of Laser Beams with the Living Matter Part 1 Nonlinear Interaction of Beat and Modulated Laser Beams with the Living Matter 1.1. Eigen-modes; Bio Eigen-modes 1.2. Beat Wave Driven Free Electron Laser, (BW-FEL) 1.3. Nonlinear Laser-Living-Matter Interaction: the Fundamentals 1.4. Genome: the Matrix of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators; the Eigen Frequencies of the DNA Molecular Oscillations 1.5. Parametric Laser-DNA Interaction 1.6. Laser Transmutation of Human Blood Types; Laser Interaction with the Thin Films of Blood Part 2 NEUROPHYSICS 2.1. Interaction of Multiple Photon Beams with the Brain Topions: the Brain Neurocenters 2.2 The Multi Laser Beam Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases Part 3 Stem Cell Physics 3.1. Stem Cell Physics. Multiple-Laser-Beam Treatment of Parkinson's Disease 3.2. Laser Stem Cell Technologies 3.3. Laser Noncloning Techniques: Laser Stimulated Exchange of the Genomic Matter in Stem Cells 3.4. Laser Regenerative Medicine Part 4 Genomic Physics 4.1 Laser Manipulation of the DNA Molecules 4.2. Interaction of the Photon Beams with the DNA Molecules: Genomic Medical Physics 4.3. Laser Genomic Pharmacology: Laser Pharmacogenomics Glossary Onomasticon References; Bibliography Notes, Comments About the Author

Download or read book The Open World MANIFESTO written by V. Alexander STEFAN and published by Stefan University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. Alexander STEFAN The Open World MANIFESTO Novus Ordo Scientifico-Technologicus. QUALB Coeptis New Order Scientific-Technological. QUALB Cooperates CONTENTS BOOK 1 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: A New Earth and a New Atlantis Universe: Our Very Own 393 BOOK 2 HUMAN BEINGS; OUR ID-NUMBERS; OUR CONSCIOUSNESS of TIME 558 BOOK 3 FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY, and PLURALISM: The Dawning of the Terrestrial Civilization 618 BOOK 4 THE AGE OF EDUCATION: CREATIVE EDUCATION versus DRILL EDUCATION 699 BOOK 5 HUMAN BEING and QUALB the GIVER, the SUPREME BEING: Science/Technology and Religion 754

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Attention written by Kia Nobre and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last three decades, there have been enormous advances in our understanding of the neural mechanisms of selective attention at the network as well as the cellular level. The Oxford Handbook of Attention brings together the different research areas that constitute contemporary attention research into one comprehensive and authoritative volume. In 40 chapters, it covers the most important aspects of attention research from the areas of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, human and animal neuroscience, computational modelling, and philosophy. The book is divided into 4 main sections. Following an introduction from Michael Posner, the books starts by looking at theoretical models of attention. The next two sections are dedicated to spatial attention and non-spatial attention respectively. Within section 4, the authors consider the interactions between attention and other psychological domains. The last two sections focus on attention-related disorders, and finally, on computational models of attention. Aimed at both scholars and students, the Oxford Handbook of Attention provides a concise and state-of-the-art review of the current literature in this field.

Download or read book An Internet in Your Head written by Daniel Graham and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether we realize it or not, we think of our brains as computers. In neuroscience, the metaphor of the brain as a computer has defined the field for much of the modern era. But as neuroscientists increasingly reevaluate their assumptions about how brains work, we need a new metaphor to help us ask better questions. The computational neuroscientist Daniel Graham offers an innovative paradigm for understanding the brain. He argues that the brain is not like a single computer—it is a communication system, like the internet. Both are networks whose power comes from their flexibility and reliability. The brain and the internet both must route signals throughout their systems, requiring protocols to direct messages from just about any point to any other. But we do not yet understand how the brain manages the dynamic flow of information across its entire network. The internet metaphor can help neuroscience unravel the brain’s routing mechanisms by focusing attention on shared design principles and communication strategies that emerge from parallel challenges. Highlighting similarities between brain connectivity and the architecture of the internet can open new avenues of research and help unlock the brain’s deepest secrets. An Internet in Your Head presents a clear-eyed and engaging tour of brain science as it stands today and where the new paradigm might take it next. It offers anyone with an interest in brains a transformative new way to conceptualize what goes on inside our heads.

Download or read book Stairway to the Mind written by Alwyn Scott and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-02-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human consciousness has perplexed philosophers, artists and scientists for centuries. Some hold it to be purely physical, while others believe it transcends the material world. Now comes a book that offers a new perspective - based entirely on evidence from the natural sciences - whereby materialism and dualism co-exist. The author - a distinguished pioneer of nonlinear dynamics - bases his argument on a hierarchical view of mental organization; a stairway. Atoms give rise to molecules, neurons form the brain and individual consciousness leads to shared culture. All steps are needed to complete the picture and each level derives from the previous one. The book shows specialists how each of their fields adds to the overall picture, while providing general readers with an introduction to this investigation.

Download or read book The Physical Nature of Consciousness written by Philip Van Loocke and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Physical Nature of Consciousness contains twelve chapters that discuss recent and new perspectives on the relation between modern physics and consciousness. Stuart Hameroff opens with an extended and updated exposition of the Penrose/Hameroff Orch-OR model, and subsequently addresses recent criticisms of quantum approaches to the brain. Evan Walker presents his view on consciousness from the perspective of a new approach to the integration of quantum theory and relativity. Friedrich Beck elaborates on the Beck/Eccles quantum approach to consciousness. Karl Pribram puts the holographic view on consciousness in perspective of his life long work. Peter Marcer and Edgar Mitchell explain the relevance of quantum holography for consciousness. Gordon Globus discusses the relation between postmodern philosophical theories and quantum consciousness. Chris Clarke develops a theory in terms of a specific type of formal logic to reconcile the phenomenology of consciousness with the physical world. Ilya Prigogine summarizes his view on complexity, and on the future of quantum theory, which goes beyond the present formalism, and goes on to comment on the problem of consciousness. Matti Pitkanen identifies the place for consciousness in a unifying topological geometro-dynamics theory. Colin McGinn argues against classical materialism. Dick Bierman gives an overview of anomalous phenomena. He identifies a decline effect, and discusses different possible interpretations. Philip Van Loocke closes the volume with a discussion on how deep teleology in cellular systems may relate to consciousness. (Series A)

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Download or read book Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience written by G. Bard Ermentrout and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies methods from nonlinear dynamics to problems in neuroscience. It uses modern mathematical approaches to understand patterns of neuronal activity seen in experiments and models of neuronal behavior. The intended audience is researchers interested in applying mathematics to important problems in neuroscience, and neuroscientists who would like to understand how to create models, as well as the mathematical and computational methods for analyzing them. The authors take a very broad approach and use many different methods to solve and understand complex models of neurons and circuits. They explain and combine numerical, analytical, dynamical systems and perturbation methods to produce a modern approach to the types of model equations that arise in neuroscience. There are extensive chapters on the role of noise, multiple time scales and spatial interactions in generating complex activity patterns found in experiments. The early chapters require little more than basic calculus and some elementary differential equations and can form the core of a computational neuroscience course. Later chapters can be used as a basis for a graduate class and as a source for current research in mathematical neuroscience. The book contains a large number of illustrations, chapter summaries and hundreds of exercises which are motivated by issues that arise in biology, and involve both computation and analysis. Bard Ermentrout is Professor of Computational Biology and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. David Terman is Professor of Mathematics at the Ohio State University.