Diversity in the neuronal machine : order and variability in interneuronal microcircuits / Ivan Soltesz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soltesz, Ivan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interneurons.

Neural networks (Neurobiology).

Physical Description:

xvii, 238 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

The central aim of the book is to provide new insights into the striking degree of cellular diversity found in the interneuronal microcircuits in the brain's neocortex and hippocampus. It elaborates on novel ideas about interneuronal diversity that rest upon recent theoretical and experimental results concerning the developmental origins, the genetic and homeostatic regulation, and the functional roles of interneuronal heterogeneity, with arguments touching upon evolution, animal behavior and the mathematical theory of small world networks. This engaging volume is invaluable to neuroscientists and others interested in neuronal network theory; neurologists and psychiatrists working on mechanisms of neurological and psychiatric disorders; and students and trainees in all these fields.

Contents:

Developmental origins of interneuronal heterogeneity

Order in diversity: from phenomenology to function

Cracks in the crystal: elusive neurospecies and the great correlation hunt

Functions of heterogeneity: meaning of means and variability of variances

Interneuronal variability: plasticity and regulation

Diversity beyond variance

Fifty ways to be a basket cell: self-tuning interneurons with multiple solutions for their tasks

Interneuronal diversity and small world neuronal networks

Closing thoughts: the structure of cortical microcircuit theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-233) and index.

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ISBN:

9780198039327

0198039328

OCLC:

71792755