Look Inside Principles of Computational Modelling in Neuroscience

Principles of Computational Modelling in Neuroscience

Name: Principles of Computational Modelling in Neuroscience
Price: 81.99 USD
Availability: LimitedAvailability
ISBN: 9781139037099

$81.99 ( ) USD

Authors:
David Sterratt, University of Edinburgh
Bruce Graham, University of Stirling
Andrew Gillies, Psymetrix Limited, Edinburgh
David Willshaw, University of Edinburgh

Date Published: May 2011
availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
format: Adobe eBook Reader
isbn: 9781139037099

Find out more about Cambridge eBooks

Rate & review

$ 81.99 USD ( )
Adobe eBook Reader

You will be taken to ebooks.com for this purchase

Buy eBook Add to wishlist

Other available formats:

Looking for an examination copy?

If you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an examination copy. To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching.

Description

The nervous system is made up of a large number of interacting elements. To understand how such a complex system functions requires the construction and analysis of computational models at many different levels. This book provides a step-by-step account of how to model the neuron and neural circuitry to understand the nervous system at all levels, from ion channels to networks. Starting with a simple model of the neuron as an electrical circuit, gradually more details are added to include the effects of neuronal morphology, synapses, ion channels and intracellular signaling. The principle of abstraction is explained through chapters on simplifying models, and how simplified models can be used in networks. This theme is continued in a final chapter on modeling the development of the nervous system. Requiring an elementary background in neuroscience and some high school mathematics, this textbook is an ideal basis for a course on computational neuroscience.
- Presents models in the context of the underlying biology and biophysics, enabling readers to engage with and understand their relevance
- Complex mathematical details are highlighted and explained in boxes alongside the main text, so that readers can follow the discussion easily and clearly
- Associated website (www.compneuroprinciples.org) provides sample codes and up-to-date links to external resources, such as simulators and databases
Read more
Reviews & endorsements
"Here at last is a book that is aware of my problem, as an experimental neuroscientist, in understanding the maths, the book helps me deal with it with the patience that the team always showed to students and professors alike. I expect it to be as mind expanding as my involvement with its authors was over the years. I only wish I had had the whole book sooner – then my students and post-docs would have been able to understand what I was trying to say and been able to derive the critical tests of the ideas that only the rigor of the mathematical formulation of them could have generated."
Gordon W. Arbuthnott, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
"This is a wonderful, clear and compelling text on mathematically-minded computational modelling in neuroscience. It is beautifully aimed at those engaged in capturing quantitatively, and thus simulating, complex neural phenomena at multiple spatial and temporal scales, from intracellular calcium dynamics and stochastic ion channels, through compartmental modelling, all the way to aspects of development. It takes particular care to define the processes, potential outputs and even some pitfalls of modelling; and can be recommended for containing the key lessons and pointers for people seeking to build their own computational models. By eschewing issues of coding and information processing, it largely hews to concrete biological data, and it nicely avoids sacrificing depth for breadth. It is very suitably pitched as a Master's level text, and its two appendices, on mathematical methods and software resources, will rapidly become dog-eared."
Peter Dayan, University College London
"This book has done a nice job of laying out their strategy or covering major topics in the field of computational neuroscience while maintaining a well-organized structure. It is prepared for both expert and non-expert readers with an elementary background in neuroscience and some high school mathematics. This is a timely, well-written book that provides a comprehensive, in-depth and state-of-the-art coverage of computational modeling in neuroscience. It can serve as an excellent text for a graduate level course in computational neuroscience, as well as a valuable reference for experimental neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists and people working in relevant areas such as neuroinformatics and systems biology."
Li Shen, Briefings in Bioinformatics
See more reviews
Customer reviews

Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review

Log in to review

Review was not posted due to profanity
×

, create a review

(If you're not , sign out)

Please enter the right captcha value

Please enter a star rating.

Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

How do you rate this item?

Reviews must contain at least 12 words about the product.

×

Product details
- Date Published: May 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781139037099
- contains: 178 b/w illus. 7 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The basis of electrical activity in the neuron
3. The Hodgkin Huxley model of the action potential
4. Compartmental models
5. Models of active ion channels
6. Intracellular mechanisms
7. The synapse
8. Simplified models of neurons
9. Networks
10. The development of the nervous system
Appendix A. Resources
Appendix B. Mathematical methods
References.
Look Inside
Resources for

Principles of Computational Modelling in Neuroscience

David Sterratt, Bruce Graham, Andrew Gillies, David Willshaw
General Resources
- Figures
Find resources associated with this title
Back to resources home

Your search for '' returned .
Type Name Unlocked * Format Size

Showing of

Back to top

This title is supported by one or more locked resources. Access to locked resources is granted exclusively by Cambridge University Press to instructors whose faculty status has been verified. To gain access to locked resources, instructors should sign in to or register for a Cambridge user account.

Please use locked resources responsibly and exercise your professional discretion when choosing how you share these materials with your students. Other instructors may wish to use locked resources for assessment purposes and their usefulness is undermined when the source files (for example, solution manuals or test banks) are shared online or via social networks.

Supplementary resources are subject to copyright. Instructors are permitted to view, print or download these resources for use in their teaching, but may not change them or use them for commercial gain.

If you are having problems accessing these resources please contact lecturers@cambridge.org.
Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Computation Neuroscience & Neuroengineering
- Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
- Computational Intelligence
- Computational Neurobiology
- Computational Neuroscience
- Dynamics of Biological systems
- Mathematical modeling methods for biological systems
- Methods in Computational Neuroscience
- Molecular Biomechanics
- Neurobiology and Biometrics and Modeling courses
Authors
David Sterratt, University of Edinburgh
David Sterratt is a Research Fellow in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. His computational neuroscience research interests include models of learning and forgetting, and the formation of connections within the developing nervous system.
Bruce Graham, University of Stirling
Bruce Graham is a Reader in Computing Science in the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics at the University of Stirling. Focusing on computational neuroscience, his research covers nervous system modelling at many levels.
Andrew Gillies, Psymetrix Limited, Edinburgh
Andrew Gillies works at Psymetrix Limited, Edinburgh. He has been actively involved in computational neuroscience research.
David Willshaw, University of Edinburgh
David Willshaw is Professor of Computational Neurobiology in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the application of methods of computational neurobiology to an understanding of the development and functioning of the nervous system.