TY - BOOK ID - 77940296 TI - Bursting : the genesis of rhythm in the nervous system AU - Coombes, Stephen. AU - Bressloff, Paul C. PY - 2005 SN - 1281899208 9786611899202 9812703233 9789812703231 981256506X 9789812565068 9781281899200 6611899200 PB - Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub., DB - UniCat KW - Neural transmission. KW - Sensory neurons. KW - Nerve transmission KW - Nervous transmission KW - Neurotransmission KW - Synaptic transmission KW - Transmission of nerve impulses KW - Neural circuitry KW - Neurophysiology KW - Neurotransmitters KW - Neurons KW - Neurons, Afferent KW - Synaptic Transmission KW - physiology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77940296 AB - Neurons in the brain communicate with each other by transmitting sequences of electrical spikes or action potentials. One of the major challenges in neuroscience is to understand the basic physiological mechanisms underlying the complex spatiotemporal patterns of spiking activity observed during normal brain functioning, and to determine the origins of pathological dynamical states such as epileptic seizures and Parkinsonian tremors. A second major challenge is to understand how the patterns of spiking activity provide a substrate for the encoding and transmission of information, that is, how ER -