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The Brain-behavior Continuum
Jose Luis Perez VelazquezMarina Frantseva
其他書名
The Subtle Transition Between Sanity and Insanity
出版World Scientific, 2011
主題Medical / NeurologyMedical / NeuroscienceScience / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
ISBN981434060X9789814340601
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SZHrcqn8GxkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book is a comprehensive overview of the main current concepts in brain cognitive activities at the global, collective (or network) level, with a focus on transitions between normal neurophysiology and brain pathological states. It provides a unique approach of linking molecular and cellular aspects of normal and pathological brain functioning with their corresponding network, collective and dynamical manifestations that are subsequently extended to behavioral manifestations of healthy and diseased brains. This book introduces a high-level perspective, searching for simplification amongst the structural and functional complexity of nervous systems by consideration of the distributed interactions that underlie the collective behavior of the system. The authors hope that this approach could promote a global comprehensive understanding of high-level laws behind the elementary biological processes in the neuroscientific community, while, perhaps, introducing elements of biological complexities to the mathematical/computational readership. The title of the book refers to the main point of the monograph: that there is a smooth continuum between distinct brain activities resulting in different behaviors, and that, due to the plastic nature of the brain, the behavior can also alter the brain function, thus rendering artificial the boundaries between the brain and its behavior.