Modeling in the Neurosciences

PREFACE CONTRIBUTORS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION TO MODELING IN THE NEUROSCIENCES George N. Reeke PATTERNS OF GENETIC INTERACTIONS: ANALYSIS OF MRNA LEVELS FROM CDNA MICROARRAYS Larry S. Liebovitch, Lina A. Shehadeh, andd Viktor K. Jirsa CALCIUM SIGNALING IN DENDRITIC SPINES William R. Holmes PHYSIOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL APPROACHES TO MODELING OF SYNAPTIC RESPONSES Parag G. Patil, Mike West, Howard V. Wheal, and Dennis A. Turner NATURAL VARIABILITY IN THE GEOMETRY OF DENDRITIC BRANCHING PATTERNS Jaap van Pelt and Harry B.M. Uylings MULTICYLINDER MODELS FOR SYNAPTIC AND GAP-JUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION Jonathan D. Evans VOLTAGE TRANSIENTS IN BRANCHING MULTIPOLAR NEURONS WITH TAPERING DENDRITES AND SODIUM CHANNELS Lloyd L. Glenn and Jeffrey R. Knisley ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS OF THE FRANKENHAEUSER-HUXLEY EQUATIONS MODIFIED FOR DENDRITIC BACKPROPAGATION OF A SINGLE SODIUM SPIKE Roman R. Poznanski INVERSE PROBLEMS FOR SOME CABLE MODELS OF DENDRITES Jonathan Bell EQUIVALENT CABLES-ANALYSIS AND CONSTRUCTION Kenneth A. Lindsay, Jay R. Rosenberg, and Gayle Tucker THE REPRESENTATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL DENDRITIC STRUCTURE BY A ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL-THE CONVENTIONAL CABLE EQUATION AS THE FIRST MEMBER OF A HIERARCHY OF EQUATIONS Kenneth A. Lindsay, Jay R. Rosenberg, and Gayle Tucker SIMULATION ANALYSES OF RETINAL CELL RESPONSES Yoshimi Kamiyama, Akito Ishihara, Toshihiro Aoyama, and Shiro Usui MODELING INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM: DIFFUSION, DYNAMICS, AND DOMAINS Gregory D. Smith EPHAPTIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN NEURONS Robert Costalat and Bruno Delord CORTICAL PYRAMIDAL CELLS Roger D. Orpwood SEMI-QUANTITATIVE THEORY OF BISTABLE DENDRITES WITH POTENTIAL-DEPENDENT FACILITATION OF INWARD CURRENT Aron Gutman, Armantas Baginskas, Jorn Hounsgaard, Natasha Svirskiene, and Gytis Svirskis BIFURCATION ANALYSIS OF THE HODGKIN-HUXLEY EQUATIONS Shunsuke Sato, Hidekazu Fukai, Taishin Nomura, and Shinji Doi HIGHLY EFFICIENT PROPAGATION OF RANDOM IMPULSE TRAINS ACROSS UNMYELINATED AXONAL BRANCH POINTS: MODIFICATIONS BY PERIAXONAL K+ ACCUMULATION AND SODIUM CHANNEL KINETICS Mel D. Goldfinger DENDRITIC INTEGRATION IN A TWO-NEURON RECURRENT EXCITATORY NETWORK MODEL Roman R. Poznanski SPIKE-TRAIN ANALYSIS FOR NEURAL SYSTEMS David M. Halliday THE POETICS OF TREMOR G.P. Moore and Helen M. Bronte-Stewart PRINCIPLES AND METHODS IN THE ANALYSIS OF BRAIN NETWORKS Olaf Sporns THE DARWIN BRAIN-BASED AUTOMATA: SYNTHETIC NEURAL MODELS AND REAL-WORLD DEVICES Jeffrey L. Krichmar and George N. Reeke TOWARD NEURAL ROBOTICS: FROM SYNTHETIC MODELS TO NEUROMIMETIC IMPLEMENTATIONS Olaf Sporns BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX