Mathematics for Neuroscientists / Edition 2

by Fabrizio Gabbiani, Steven James Cox

Overview

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to mathematical and computational methods used in neuroscience to describe and model neural components of the brain from ion channels to single neurons, neural networks and their relation to behavior. The book contains more than 200 figures generated using Matlab code available to the student and scholar. Mathematical concepts are introduced hand in hand with neuroscience, emphasizing the connection between experimental results and theory.--

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128018958
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	02/23/2017
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	628
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Gabbiani is Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine. Having received the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research prize in 2012, he just completed a one-year cross appointment at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried and has international experience in the computational neuroscience field. Together with Dr. Cox, Dr. Gabbiani co-authored the first edition of this bestselling book in 2010.

Dr. Cox is Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University. Affiliated with the Center for Neuroscience, Cognitive Sciences Program, and the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, he is also Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Cox has served as Associate Editor for a number of mathematics journals, including the Mathematical Medicine and Biology and Inverse Problems. He previously authored the first edition of this title with Dr. Gabbiani.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 The Passive Isopotential Cell 3 Differential Equations 4 The Active Isopotential Cell 5 The Quasi-Active Isopotential Cell 6 The Passive Cable 7 Fourier Series and Transforms 8 The Passive Dendritic Tree9 The Active Dendritic Tree 10 Reduced Single Neuron Models 11 Probability and Random Variables 12 Synaptic Transmission and Quantal Release 13 Neuronal Calcium Signaling14 The Singular Value Decomposition and Applications15 Quantification of Spike Train Variability 16 Stochastic Processes 17 Membrane Noise18 Power and Cross Spectra 19 Natural Light Signals and Phototransduction 20 Firing Rate Codes and Early Vision21 Models of Simple and Complex Cells 22 Stochastic Estimation Theory 23 Reverse-Correlation and Spike Train Decoding 24 Signal Detection Theory 25 Relating Neuronal Responses and Psychophysics 26 Population Codes 27 Neuronal Networks 28 Solutions to Selected Exercises

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From the Publisher

Addressing a growing need of experimental neuroscientists for a good introduction and reference to the most common mathematical approaches for the analysis and computational modeling of brain signals, this is the first book to offer a thorough guide to mathematical concepts and numerical methods integrated in a neuroscience context.

Editorial Reviews

"Mathematics for Neuroscientists by Fabrizio Gabbiani and Steven Cox (GC) was developed over 8 years of teaching courses on the topic. This experience, as well as the wide-ranging research contributions of the authors, clearly shines through—the text is a landmark for the field in its scope, rigor, and accessibility. . . .This is a hallmark of the book: elegance, completeness, and economy that leave the reader with much more mathematics and science than one might expect even in a work of this size. The book further benefits from the availability of MATLAB code provided to regenerate almost every figure. . . . This integration of code and text is by far the best we’ve seen. It brings alive the science, the mathematical tools, the models, and their implementation." —Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics SIAM Review, 2011 (Vol 53, No. 3)

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