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Introduction to Theoretical Neurobiology Volume 1 Linear Cable Theory and Dendritic Structure - Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology
Author: Henry C. Tuckwell

The human brain contains billions of nerve cells whose activity plays a critical role in the way we behave, feel, perceive, and think. This two-volume set explains the basic properties of a neuron--an electrically active nerve cell--and develops mathematical theories for the way neurons respond to the various stimuli they receive. Volume 1 conta...  more »ins descriptions and analyses of the principle mathematical models that have been developed for neurons in the past thirty years. It provides a brief review of the basic neuroanatomical and neurophysiological facts that will form the focus of the mathematical treatment. Tuckwell discusses the mathematical theories, beginning with the theory of membrane potentials. He then goes on to treat the Lapicque model, linear cable theory, and time-dependent solutions of the cable equations. He concludes with a description of Rall's model nerve cell. Because the level of mathematics increases steadily upward from Chapter Two some familiarity with differential equations and linear algebra is desirable.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780521022224
ISBN-10: 0521022223
Publication Date: 4/20/2006
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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