Self-Organized Biological Dynamics and Nonlinear Control (eBook, PDF)

Toward Understanding Complexity, Chaos and Emergent Function in Living Systems
Redaktion: Walleczek, Jan

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Produktbeschreibung

The growing impact of nonlinear science on biology and medicine is fundamentally changing our view of living organisms and disease processes. This book introduces the application to biomedicine of a broad range of interdisciplinary concepts from nonlinear dynamics, such as self-organization, complexity, coherence, stochastic resonance, fractals and chaos. It comprises 18 chapters written by leading figures in the field and covers experimental and theoretical research, as well as the emerging technological possibilities such as nonlinear control techniques for treating pathological biodynamics, including heart arrhythmias and epilepsy. This book will attract the interest of professionals and students from a wide range of disciplines, including physicists, chemists, biologists, sensory physiologists and medical researchers such as cardiologists, neurologists and biomedical engineers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511059773
• Artikelnr.: 38215941

Inhaltsangabe

The frontiers and challenges of biodynamics research Jan Walleczek; Part I.
Nonlinear Dynamics in Biology and Response to Stimuli: 1. External signals
and internal oscillation dynamics - principal aspects and response of
stimulated rhythmic processes Friedemann Kaiser; 2. Nonlinear dynamics in
biochemical and biophysical systems: from enzyme kinetics to epilepsy Raima
Larter, Robert Worth and Brent Speelman; 3. Fractal mechanisms in neural
control: human heartbeat and gait dynamics in health and disease Chung-Kang
Peng, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff and Ary L. Goldberger; 4. Self-organising
dynamics in human coordination and perception Mingzhou Ding, Yanqing Chen,
J. A. Scott Kelso and Betty Tuller; 5. Signal processing in biochemical
reaction networks Adam P. Arkin; Part II. Nonlinear Sensitivity of
Biological Systems to Electromagnetic Stimuli: 6. Electrical signal
detection and noise in systems with long-range coherence Paul C. Gailey; 7.
Oscillatory signals in migrating neutrophils: effects of time-varying
chemical and electrical fields Howard R. Petty; 8. Enzyme kinetics and
nonlinear biochemical amplification in response to static and oscillating
magnetic fields Jan Walleczek and Clemens F. Eichwald; 9. Magnetic field
sensitivity in the hippocampus Stefan Engström, Suzanne Bawin and W. Ross
Adey; Part III. Stochastic Noise-Induced Dynamics and Transport in
Biological Systems: 10. Stochastic resonance: looking forward Frank Moss;
11. Stochastic resonance and small-amplitude signal transduction in
voltage-gated ion channels Sergey M. Bezrukov and Igor Vodyanoy; 12.
Ratchets, rectifiers and demons: the constructive role of noise in free
energy and signal transduction R. Dean Astumian; 13. Cellular transduction
of periodic and stochastic energy signals by electroconformational coupling
Tian Y. Tsong; Part IV. Nonlinear Control of Biological and Other Excitable
Systems: 14. Controlling chaos in dynamical systems Kenneth Showalter; 15.
Electromagnetic fields and biological tissues: from nonlinear response to
chaos control William L. Ditto and Mark L. Spano; 16. Epilepsy:
multistability in a dynamic disease John G. Milton; 17. Control and
perturbation of wave propagation in excitable systems Oliver Steinbock and
Stefan C. Müller; 18. Changing paradigms in biomedicine: implications for
future research and clinical applications Jan Walleczek; Index.