Overview
- Good overview of the emerging field of systems neuroscience
- Looks at processing sensory information, neural networks, and high-level mental functions
- Looks at pathologies and diseases from a systems biology perspective
Part of the book series: Advances in Neurobiology (NEUROBIOL, volume 21)
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This edition of Advances in Neurobiology brings together experts in the emerging field of Systems Neuroscience to present an overview of this area of research. Topics covered include: how different neural circuits analyze sensory information, form perceptions of the external world, make decisions, and execute movements; how nerve cells behave when connected together to form neural networks; the relationship between molecular and cellular approaches to understanding brain structure and function; the study of high-level mental functions; and studying brain pathologies and diseases with Systems Neuroscience. A hierarchy of biological complexity arises from the genome, transcriptome, proteome, organelles, cells, synapses, circuits, brain regions, the whole brain, and behaviour. The best way to study the brain, the most complex organ in the body composed of 100 billion cells with trillions of interconnections, is with a Systems Biology approach. Systems biology is an inter-disciplinary field that focuses on complex interactions within biological systems to reveal 'emergent properties' - properties of cells and groups of cells functioning as a system whose actual and theoretical description is only possible using Systems Biology techniques.
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Book Title: Systems Neuroscience
Editors: Albert Cheung-Hoi Yu, Lina Li
Series Title: Advances in Neurobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94593-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94591-0Published: 25 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06880-6Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94593-4Published: 17 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2190-5215
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5223
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 307
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Systems Biology