Introduction to Theoretical Neurobiology
Volume 1. Linear Cable Theory and Dendritic Structure
Part of Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology
- Author: Henry C. Tuckwell, University of California, Irvine
- Date Published: March 2011
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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 contains 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.
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511828751
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introductory neuroanatomy and neurophysiology: the properties of motoneurons
2. The classical theory of membrane potentials
3. The Lapicque model of the nerve cell
4. Linear cable theory for nerve cylinders and dendritic trees: steady-state solutions
5. Time-dependent cable theory for nerve cylinders and dendritic trees
6. Rall's model neuron
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