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Edited By
J. van Pelt, Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
M. Kamermans, Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
C.N. Levelt, Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A. van Ooyen, Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
G.J.A. Ramakers, Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
P.R. Roelfsema, Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Included in series
Progress in Brain Research, 147
Description
This book is about neuronal networks within the brain. With roughly 100 billion nerve cells the human brain contains about 3.2 million
kilometers of 'wires' to make a million billion of connections between these nerve cells. Nerve cells exchange electrical and chemical
signals through these connections and the dynamical patterns of electrical/chemical signals are the basis of all our thinking, memories,
consciousness, and control of our behaviour.
How do these networks develop their specific connectivity, what are the patterns of
electrical activity that serve such a fundamental role in our cognitive abilities, how can it go wrong in these networks resulting in
different types of brain pathologies, such as mental retardation, Alzheimer?s disease, epilepsy or schizophrenia? These questions are
among the most fundamental ones in neuroscience and are addressed in this volume. The chapters in this book cover both state-of-the-art
broad reviews and in-depth studies of topics selected in order to bridge different levels of neurobiological organization, from the molecular,
cellular, neural network to the cognitive level. An excellent example of such a 'red thread' is given by the chapters devoted to the
visual system, illustrating the advanced state of understanding of network development, plasticity and functioning of the visual system.
Other chapters illustrate how scientific advances are driven by technical developments as shown for multi-electrode recording and life
imaging techniques that enable the study of electrical activity simultaneously in many nerve cells.
Contents
List of contributors.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
I. Neuronal Network Formation.
1. Neuronal network formation in human cerebral
cortex G.J.A. Ramakers.
II. Molecular and Cell Biological Mechanisms of Neuronal Network Development and Synapse Formation.
2. Regulation of dendritic growth by calcium and neurotrophin signaling P.A. Dijkhuizen and A. Ghosh.
3. Dynamics and pathology
of dendritic spinesS. Halpain, K. Spencer and S. Graber.
4. Introduction to the seventeenth C.U. Ariens Kappers Lecture D.F.
Swaab, J. van Pelt and M. Hofman.
5. Mechanisms of retinotopic map development: ephs, ephrins, and spontaneous correlated retinal
activity D.D.M. O'Leary and T. McLaughlin.
6. Biologically plausible models of neurite outgrowth G. Kiddie, D. McLean,
A. Van Ooyen and B. Graham.
7. Competition in neurite outgrowth and the development of nerve connections A. van Ooyen.
III. Synapse Rearrangement.
8. Molecular substrates of plasticity in the developing visual cortex S.A. Taha and M.P. Stryker.
9. Excitatory-inhibitory balance controls critical period plasticity in developing visual cortexT.K. Hensch and M. Fagiolini.
10. Structural plasticity in the developing visual system M. Bence and C.N. Levelt.
11. Mechanisms controlling the formation
of retinal mosaics E. Novelli, V. Resta and L. Galli-Resta.
12. Laminar circuit formation in the vertebrate retina J.S.
Mumm, L. Godinho, J.L. Morgan, D.M. Oakley, E.H. Schroeter and R. O.L. Wong.
IV. Structure and Dynamics in Neurons and Neuronal
Networks.
13. Dynamics and plasticity in developing neuronal networks in vitro J. Van Pelt, I. Vajda, P.S. Wolters, M.A. Corner
and G.J.A. Ramakers.
14. Learning in ex-vivo developing networks of cortical neurons S. Marom and D. Eytan.
15. Role
of synaptic inhibition in spatiotemporal patterning of cortical activity L. Bosman, J.C. Lodder, A. Van Ooyen and A.B. Brussaard.
16. Synaptic mechanisms that shape visual signalling at the inner retina P.D. Lukasiewicz.
17. The involvement of glutamate-gated
channels in negative feedback from horizontal cells to conesI. Fahrenfort, J. Klooster, T. Sjoerdsma and M. Kamermans.
18.
Compensatory physiological responses to chronic blockade of amino acid receptors during early development in spontaneously active organotypic
cerebral cortex explants cultured in vitroM.A. Corner, R.E. Baker, J. van Pelt and P.S. Wolters.
V. Dynamics in Neural
Circuits in Cognition.
19. A visual salience map in the primate frontal eye field K.G. Thompson and N.P. Bichot.
20. Chronic
multi-unit recordings in behaving animals: advantages and limitationsH. Super and P. Roelfsema.
VI. Deficient Circuitry
and Cognitive/Behavioural Pathology.
21. Physiological studies of information processing in the normal and Parkinsonian basal ganglia:
pallidal activity in go/no-go task and following MPTP treatment G. Morris, Y. Hershkovitz, A. Raz A. Nevet and H. Bergman.
22. Rho proteins, mental retardation and the neurobiological basis of intelligence E.J.M. van Galen and G.J.A. Ramakers.
23.
Neurodevelopment, neuroplasticity and new genes for schizophrenia S.E. Arnold, K. Talbot and C.-G. Hahn.
24. The impact of
seizures on developing hippocampal networks J.W. Swann.
25. Alzheimer's disease as a disorder of dynamic brain self-organization T. Arendt.
Subject Index.
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Hardbound, 402 pages, publication date: OCT-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51663-3
ISBN-10: 0-444-51663-8
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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