Modeling in the Neurosciences
Subtitle: From Ionic Channels to Neural Networks
Publisher: CRC
Published: February 19, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9789057022845
Subjects: Neural networks; Neurosciences; Neurophysiology; Mathematical models; Mathematical Models In Biology; Science; Medical / Nursing; Neurons; Science/Mathematics; Neurology - General; Anthropology - Physical; Research; Medical / Neuroscience; Computer simulation; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Computational neuroscience; Neural networks (Neurobiology)
First sentence: Evolution through millions of years of variation and selection has produced an immensely complex structure- the human brain, believed to contain about 100 billion neurons interconnected with a high-degree of specificity totaling about 1000 trillion connections.