IWINAC2005: Pre-organized Session details.

Title: "Hybridation of computer neuron models and experimental data: working out solutions"

Organized by:

Prof. Oscar Herreras <herreras@cajal.csic.es>

Laboratorio de Neurofisiología Experimental y Computational - Instituto Cajal de Neurobiología - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Spain)

and

Prof. Gonzalo G. de Polavieja <gonzalo.polavieja@uam.es>

Departamento de Física Teorica - Instituto 'Nicolás Cabrera', Facultad de Ciencia - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)

with the collaboration of:

Prof. Gonzalo García de Polavieja, Dept. Theoretical Physics, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Prof. Maria Victoria Sánchez-Vives, Institute for Neuroscience-CSIC, (Spain)
Prof. Fivos Panetsos, Dpto. Applied Mathematics, Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)

IWINAC Topics: 1.1.2 1.1.3

Description:

The study of the Nervous System is beginning to take advantage of modern highly sophisticated and expensive technologies. Yet, the phenomenological unraveling of the brain’s functional circuitry is only a necessary but not sufficient step toward its full understanding. We will only be close to it when we can model the brain. Computer modeling of the complex bioelectrical events of these bizarre and tortuous cables that are neurons is providing for the first time in the history of Neuroscience with a marvelous experimental tool that is truly independent of the observer’s interference, the heaviest burden so frequently neglected by experimenters. Experimental data from different sources are often contradictory, and experimental techniques are more often insufficient to reach the “hot” places where the essence of the mechanisms underlying neural function dwells. Experimenters are also helpless to cope with massive experimental data. In this session we aim to present and discuss some topics where computer modeling comes to help Neurophysiology to work out solutions for long-held or recent neurophysiological observations at two different levels of complexity: neurons and circuits.

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