03745nam a22005295i 4500 978-3-031-54537-5 DE-He213 20251030111800.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240401s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031545375 978-3-031-54537-5 10.1007/978-3-031-54537-5 doi RC321-580 PSAN bicssc SCI089000 bisacsh PSAN thema Traub, Roger. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 74565 Brain Leitmotifs [electronic resource] : The Structure and Activity Patterns of Neuronal Networks / by Roger Traub, Andreas Draguhn. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XVI, 272 p. 128 illus., 84 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Preface -- Introduction: how should one think about nervous systems? -- Basic properties of biological neurons and synapses -- Memory and classification in the brain and artificial systems -- Working memory -- Central Pattern Generators -- Reinforcement learning and a possible application (birdsong) -- Complexities of cortex and the need for detailed models -- Gap junctions and very fast oscillations -- Synchronization through excitatory synapses: epilepsy but also conscious perception -- Oscillation synchronization, synaptic plasticity and cell assemblies -- Cortical delta rhythm, spike-wave epilepsy, and cognition -- Cortical up-states -- Sharp-wave/ripples – a special up-state? -- Some application to disease: epilepsy, gap junctions and plateau potentials -- Conclusions -- References -- Glossary -- Index. This book tackles the question of why the brain is so difficult to fully understand. In neuroscience, data are acquired and analyzed with astonishing techniques and accumulate rapidly. Nevertheless, try to explain how a person can think or why there is such a condition as schizophrenia, and it appears that we really know little. To approach these difficulties, the authors first present a number of case studies in which the operation of a neural circuit is worked out in some detail and, at the same time, the functional significance of the operation is also understood. These examples are complicated in their biologic specifics but are conceptually straightforward. The examples are hoped to provoke an appreciation for what neuroscience can accomplish. The authors then develop some thoughts on how these issues can be addressed----instead of considering cognition in general, taking instead a subset of cognition that does lend itself to formal description. Neurosciences. 68384 Cognitive neuroscience. 74566 Philosophy of mind. Neuroscience. 68386 Cognitive Neuroscience. 74567 Philosophy of Mind. Draguhn, Andreas. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 74568 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031545368 Printed edition: 9783031545382 Printed edition: 9783031545399 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54537-5 ZDB-2-SBL ZDB-2-SXB 58879 58879