Bookedited by Carl L. Faingold, Hal Blumenfeld.
Summary: "How the brain accomplishes many of its more complex tasks can only be properly understood via the study of neuronal network control mechanisms and the interactions among networks. Large networks can undergo major changes, resulting in substantial alterations of brain function, affecting everything from learning to the potential for epilepsy and other CNS disorders ... the volume serves to advance the understanding of how the brain carries out important tasks via networks, how these networks interact in normal brain function, major mechanisms that control network activity, and the interaction of the normal networks to produce more complex behaviors. The chapters also show how brain disorders can result from adnormal network interactions, and how therapy of these disorders can be advanced through this network approach"--Page 4 of cover.
Contents:
Introduction to Neuronal networks of the brain / Carl L. Faingold, Hal Blumenfeld
Network models of absence seizures / Alain Destexhe
Functional magnetic resonance imaging in epilepsy: methods and applications using awake animals / Craig F. Ferris, Jeffrey Tenney
Network experimental approaches: inactivation, microinjection, neuronal stimulation, and recording / Hua-Jun Feng and Carl L. Faingold
Network experimental approaches: ex vivo recording / Victor V. Uteshev
Network imaging / Jennifer N. Guo, Hal Blumenfeld
Network control mechansims: c ellular inputs, neuroactive substances, and synaptic changes / Carl L. Faingold
Volume transmission and the Russian-doll organization of brain cell networks: aspects of their integrative actions / L.F.Agnati, S. Genedani, P.F. Spano, D. Guidolin, K. Fuxe
Electrophysiological mechanisms of network control: bursting in the brain - from cells to networks / Taufik A. Valiante, Peter L. Carlen
Network Control Mechanisms: cellular milieu / Victor V. Uteshev, Alexander G. Gusev, Evgeny A. Sametsky
Neuronal network mechanisms: sex and development / Aristea S. Galanopoulou, Solomon Moshé
Astrocytic regulation of synapses, neuronal networks, and behavior / Michael M. Halassa, Marcello D'Ascenzo, Anna Boccaccio, Tommaso Fellin
The fear memory network / Glenn E. Schafe
Orchestration of the circadian clock network by the suprachiasmatic nucleus / Shelley A. Tischkau, Stacey L. Krager
mTOR signaling in cortical network development / Tiffany V. Lin, Angelique Bordey
Network control mechanisms - synaptogenesis and epilepsy development / Kevin Staley, Jonas Dyhrfjeld-Johnsen, Waldemar Swiercz, F. Edward Dudek
The brain and spinal cord networks controlling locomotion / Larry M. Jordan, Urszula Sławińska
The brainstem respiratory network / Tara G. Bautista, Teresa E. Pitts, Paul M. Pilowsky, Kendall F. Morris
Visual network / Moran Furman
Auditory neuronal networks and chronic tinnitus / Thomas J. Brozoski, Carol A. Bauer
Consciousness and subcortical arousal systems / Joshua Motelow, Hal Blumenfeld
Networks of normal and disordered sleep / Pierre-Hervé Luppi, Patrice Fort
Networks for the modulation of acute and chronic pain / Inna Sukhotinsky, Marshall Devor
Networks in mood and anxiety disorders / Hamada Hamid
Neuronal networks and therapeutics in neurodegenerative disorders / Amanda-Amrita D. Lakraj, Bahman Jabari, Duarte G. Machado
Neuronal networks in epilepsy: comparative audiogenic seizure networks / Carl L. Faingold, Manish Raisinghani, Prosper N'Gouemo
Physiological and pathophysiological expansion of neuronal networks / Prosper N'Gouemo, Norberto Garcia-Cairasco and Carl L. Faingold
Neuronal network plasticity and network interactions are critically dependent on conditional multireceptive (CMR) brain regions / Carl L. Faingold, Awais Riaz, James D. Stittsworth, Jr.
Neuronal network interactions in the startle reflex, learning mechanisms, and CNS disorders, including sudden unexpected death in epilepsy / Carl L. Faingold, Srinivasan Tupal
Emergent properties of neuronal networks / Carl L. Faingold
Neuronal network involvement in stimulation therapies for CNS disorders / Carl L. Faingold, Hua-Jun Feng
Neuronal network effects of drug therapies for CNS disorders / Carl L. Faingold
Future trends in neuronal networks - selective and combined targeting of network hubs / Carl L. Faingold, Hal Blumenfeld.