Multiscale Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamics
From Genes to the Brain
Reviews of Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity (Band Nr. 8)
1. Auflage August 2013
328 Seiten, Hardcover
174 Abbildungen (24 Farbabbildungen)
Monographie
Kurzbeschreibung
Complex biological systems capable of effective information processing are often governed by mechanisms operating simultaneously on multiple spatial/temporal scales. The book focuses on multiresolution analysis and modeling multiscale phenomena in systems biology and neuroscience
Modeling multiscale phenomena in systems biology and neuroscience is a very interdisciplinary task, so the editor of the book invited experts in bio-engineering, chemistry, cardiology, neuroscience, computer science, and applied mathematics, to provide their perspectives. Multiscale analysis is the major integrating theme of the book, as indicated by its title. The subtitle does not call for bridging the scales all the way from genes to behavior, but rather stresses the unifying perspective provided by the concepts referred to in the title. Each chapter provides a window into the current state of the art in the areas of research discussed. The book is thus intended for advanced researchers interested in recent developments in these fields. It is believed that the interdisciplinary perspective adopted here will be beneficial for all the above-mentioned fields. The roads between different sciences, "while often the quickest shortcut to another part of our own science, are not visible from the viewpoint of one science alone."
I. MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS
Mathieu Desbrun, Roger D. Donaldson, Houman Owhadi: Discrete Geometric Structures in Homogenization and Inverse Homogenization
Isaac Z. Pesenson: Multiresolution Analysis on Compact Riemannian Manifolds
II. NONLINEAR DYNAMICS of TRANSCRIPTION NETWORKS and SYNTHETIC BIOCHEMICAL CIRCUITS
Elisa Franco, Jongmin Kim, Friedrich Simmel: Dynamics of synthetic transcription networks
Raphaël Plasson, Yannick Rondelez: Synthetic biochemical dynamic circuits
III. NONLINEAR DYNAMICS: THE BRAIN AND THE HEART
Paul L. Nunez, Ramesh Srinivasan, Lester Ingber: Theoretical and experimental electrophysiology in human neocortex: multiscale dynamic correlates of conscious experience
Danielle S. Bassett, Felix Siebenhühner: Multiscale network organization in the human brain
Michel Le Van Quyen, Vicente Botella-Soler, Mario Valderrama: Neuronal oscillations scale up and scale down the brain dynamics
Michael X. Cohen, Bradley Voytek: Linking nonlinear neural dynamics to single-trial human behavior
Etienne Hugues, Juan R. Vidal, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Gustavo Deco: Brain dynamics at rest: how structure shapes dynamics
Misha Z. Pesenson: Adaptive multiscale encoding - a computational function of neuronal synchronization
Zhilin Qu, Michael Nivala: Multi-scale nonlinear dynamics in cardiac electrophysiology: from sparks to sudden death
Connor Houghton, Thomas Kreuz: Measures of spike train synchrony: from single neurons to populations
The Series Editor
Heinz Georg Schuster is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Kiel in Germany. He was a visiting professor at the Weizmann-Institute of Science in Israel and at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA. He authored and edited many books on nonlinear phenomena and chaos control.