Principles of Theoretical Neurophysiology
The present book has two origins, one very remote, the other nearer and more contingent. The first goes back to the time when I initiated my career as a neurophysiologist in Pisa, a small town with the advantage of a highly stimulating atmosphere created by two famous institutions, the University an...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1987, 1987
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1987 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I General Properties of the Brain
- 1.Introducing the Problem
- 2. Structural and Functional Properties
- 3. The Key Property: Organization
- 4. Short Review of Approaches and Methods
- 5. Multidimensionality, Homogeneity and Fields
- II Physics and the Brain
- 6. A First Approach: Statistics
- 7. States of the Brain
- 8. Dynamic Laws and Transformations of Brain States
- 9. Reference Systems for Brain Function
- 10. The Continuum in the Central Nervous System
- 11. Outlines of a Theory
- 12. On this Side of the Border: Relativistic Aspects
- Appendix Beyond the Border: Metaphysics and the Brain A Sample of Problems
- A. 1 Introducing the Problems
- A. 2 Man and Animals
- A. 3 The Intellect
- A. 4 The Continuum
- A. 5 Theology and Neuroscience
- A. 6 Tension
- A. 7 Determination and Free Will
- References
- 1. Neurophysiology and Control Systems
- 2. Physics, Thermodynamics, Information Theory, and Related Subjects
- 3. Relativity and Related Subjects
- 4. Natural Philosophy
- 5. Appendix