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- From: mundkur@falcon.eng.uci.edu (Prashanth Mundkur)
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:45:11 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Hi!
- I am looking for a text/review article/papers on the basic techniques
- used in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. What I am interested in is NOT the
- conclusions of the various experiments that are conducted as part of research
- in these areas, but the experimental techniques themselves.
- Some questions for which I am looking for answers are
- 1) How do you conduct an experiment that traces the path of an axon for over
- 50 cms?
- 2) How do you say that a neuron responds to a certain stimulus? What exactly is
- involved when one places electrical electrodes on a cell membrane?
- 3) Drawing conclusions about a neuron's functional behaviour from brain lesion
- experiments surely is very error-prone. What are the mistakes one should not
- make when drawing conclusions from such experiments?
- 4) When one sets up a "mathematical" model of the operation of a set of neurons
- in a particular part of the nervous system, what does one normally take into
- account, and what does one assume to be irrelevant to the modeling objective?
- I should have mentioned earlier that I am not even remotely a
- neuroscience student, and so I will not be able to understand common abbreviations
- that may be in use in the neuroscience community for technical terms/journals/books.
- I need the above information for a project in a course on "Models of the Brain".
- Thanks for any advice and/or pointers to literature.
- --Prashanth.
-