• ISBN13: 9780521896771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences
• Publisher: Cambridge UP
• Publisher Imprint: Cambridge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2010
• Pages: 224
• Original Price: GBP 104.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 613 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / Physical and Neuroscience

The authors explain how the whole dendritic arborization contributes to the generation of various output discharges and elucidate the mechanisms of the transfer function of all dendritic sites. Their alternative modelling approach to conventional models introduces the notion of a functional dendritic space, and they have concentrated on a detailed spatial description of the electrical states at all dendritic sites when the dendrites operate. By analyzing the electrical dendritic space in which all the signals are processed, the authors provide tools to explore the spatial dimension of the transient events well known by electrophysiologists. They demonstrate the mechanisms by which the operating dendrites decide how, in fine, the distributed synaptic inputs generate final various output discharges. Their approach reveals the mechanisms by which individual dendritic geometry determines the sequence of action potentials that is the neuronal code. An accompanying NeuronViewer allows readers to monitor the simulation of operating dendritic arborization.

Korogod, Sergiy Mikhailovich: - Sergey Korogod is Professor and Head of Department of Experimental Physics at the Dniepropetrovsk National University, and Head of Dniepropetrovsk Division, International Center for Molecular Physiology at the National Academy of Science of the Ukraine.

Tyč-Dumont, Suzanne: - Suzanne Tyč-Dumont is Director of Research Emeritus at CNRS, Paris. She has been active since the early 1980s in the promotion of the notion of the dendritic shape as one of the most critical factors in the understanding of dendritic processing, and introduced computational tools for the quantification of the geometry of dendritic arborizations in her laboratory.