TY - BOOK ID - 18197004 TI - Self-organized biological dynamics and nonlinear control : toward understanding complexity, chaos and emergent function in linving systems PY - 2000 SN - 0521624363 PB - Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cellular signal transduction. KW - Nonlinear systems. KW - Self-organizing systems. KW - Cellular signal transduction UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18197004 AB - 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. ER -