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Nanoneuroscience: Structural and Functional Roles of the Neuronal Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease

By Jack A. Tuszynski (auth.) , Nancy J. Woolf , Avner Priel

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2010
ISBN
978-3-642-03583-8, 978-3-642-03584-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-03584-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3885029 bytes)
Series
Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
Edition
1
Pages
280\289
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Nanotechnology;Neurobiology;Biophysics and Biologi

Description

Nanoneuroscience is the study of computationally relevant biomolecules found inside neurons. Because of recent technological advances at the nanometer scale, scientists have at their disposal increasingly better ways to study the brain and the biophysics of its molecules. This book describes how biomolecules contribute to the operations of synapses and perform other computationally relevant functions inside dendrites. These biomolecular operations considerably expand the brain-computer analogy - endowing each neuron with the processing power of a silicon-based multiprocessor. Amazingly, the brain contains hundreds of billions of neurons.

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