UID:
almahu_9948234121602882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 428 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511535338 (ebook)
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The frontiers and challenges of biodynamics research / Jan Walleczek -- pt. 1. Nonlinear dynamics in biology and response to stimuli. External signals and internal oscillation dynamics : principal aspects and response of stimulated rhythmic processes / Friedemann Kaiser ; Nonlinear dynamics in biochemical and biophysical systems : from enzyme kinetics to epilepsy / Raima Larter, Robert Worth and Brent Speelman ; Fractal mechanisms in neuronal control : human heartbeat and gait dynamics in health and disease / Chung-Kang Peng, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff and Ary L. Goldberger ; Self-organizing dynamics in human sensorimotor coordination and perception / Mingzhou Ding [and others] ; Signal processing by biochemical reaction networks / Adam P. Arkin -- pt. 2. Nonlinear sensitivity of biological systems to electromagnetic stimuli. Electrical signal detection and noise in systems with long-range coherence / Paul C. Gailey ; Oscillatory signals in migrating neutrophils : effects of time-varying chemical and electric fields / Howard R. Petty ; Enzyme kinetics and nonlinear biochemical amplification in response to static and oscillating magnetic fields / Jan Walleczek and Clemens F. Eichwald ; Magnetic field sensitivity in the hippocampus / Stefan Engström, Suzanne Bawin and W. Ross Adey -- pt. 3. Stochastic noise-induced dynamics and transport in biological systems. Stochastic resonance : looking forward / Frank Moss ; Stochastic resonance and small-amplitude signal transduction in voltage-gated ion channels / Sergey M. Bezrukov and Igor Vodyanoy -- Ratchets, rectifiers, and demons : the constructive role of noise in free energy and signal transduction / R. Dean Astumian -- Cellular transduction of periodic and stochastic energy signals by electroconformational coupling / Tian Y. Tsong -- pt. 4. Nonlinear control of biological and other excitable systems. Controlling chaos in dynamical systems / Kenneth Showalter ; Electromagnetic fields and biological tissues : from nonlinear response to chaos control / William L. Ditto and Mark L. Spano ; Epilepsy : multistability in a dynamic disease / John G. Milton -- Control and perturbation of wave propagation in excitable systems / Oliver Steinbock and Stefan C. Müller ; Changing paradigms in biomedicine : implications for future research and clinical applications / Jan Walleczek.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521624367
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511535338
