Hippocampal Microcircuits

Dr. Vassilis Cutsuridis is a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. Bruce P. Graham is a Reader in Computing Science in the Department of Computing Science and Mathematics at the University of Stirling. Stuart Cobb is a Senior Lecturer in the Neuroscience and Molecular Pharmacology Department at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Imre Vida is a Senior Lecturer in the Neuroscience and Molecular Pharmacology Department at the University of Glasgow.

Preface
Part I
1.Introduction-Experimental background
2.Connectivity of the hippocampus
3.Cell morphologies
4.Physiological properties of hippocampal neurons
5.Glutamatergic neurotransmission in the hippocampus
6.Fast and slow GABAergic transmission in hippocampal circuits
7.Synaptic plasticity at hippocampal synapses
8.Neuromodulation of hippocampal cells and circuits
9.Neuronal Activity Patterns during Hippocampal Network Oscillations in Vitro
10.Neuronal Activity Patterns of Anaesthetized Animals
11.Spatial and behavioral correlates of hippocampal neuronal activity: A primer for computational analysis
Part II
12.Introduction-Computational Analysis
13.The making of a detailed CA1 pyramidal neuron model
14.CA3 cells: Detailed and simplified pyramidal cell models
15.Entorhinal cortex cells
16.Single Neuron Models: Interneurons
17.Gamma and Theta Rhythms in Biophysical Models of Hippocampal Circuits
18.Associative memory models
19.Microcircuit model of the dentate gyrus in epilepsy
20.Multi-level models
21.Biophysics-based models of LTP/LTD
22.A phenomenological calcium-based model of STDP
23.Computer simulation environments