Self-Organized Biological Dynamics and Nonlinear Control
Toward Understanding Complexity, Chaos and Emergent Function in Living Systems

Collection of articles on the impact of nonlinear science on biology.

Jan Walleczek (Edited by)

9780521026079, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 April 2006

444 pages, 332 b/w illus.
24.4 x 16.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.685 kg

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.

The frontiers and challenges of biodynamics research Jan Walleczek
Part I. Nonlinear Dynamics in Biology and Response to Stimuli: 1. External signals and internal oscillation dynamics - principal aspects and response of stimulated rhythmic processes Friedemann Kaiser
2. Nonlinear dynamics in biochemical and biophysical systems: from enzyme kinetics to epilepsy Raima Larter, Robert Worth and Brent Speelman
3. Fractal mechanisms in neural control: human heartbeat and gait dynamics in health and disease Chung-Kang Peng, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff and Ary L. Goldberger
4. Self-organising dynamics in human coordination and perception Mingzhou Ding, Yanqing Chen, J. A. Scott Kelso and Betty Tuller
5. Signal processing in biochemical reaction networks Adam P. Arkin
Part II. Nonlinear Sensitivity of Biological Systems to Electromagnetic Stimuli: 6. Electrical signal detection and noise in systems with long-range coherence Paul C. Gailey
7. Oscillatory signals in migrating neutrophils: effects of time-varying chemical and electrical fields Howard R. Petty
8. Enzyme kinetics and nonlinear biochemical amplification in response to static and oscillating magnetic fields Jan Walleczek and Clemens F. Eichwald
9. Magnetic field sensitivity in the hippocampus Stefan Engström, Suzanne Bawin and W. Ross Adey
Part III. Stochastic Noise-Induced Dynamics and Transport in Biological Systems: 10. Stochastic resonance: looking forward Frank Moss
11. Stochastic resonance and small-amplitude signal transduction in voltage-gated ion channels Sergey M. Bezrukov and Igor Vodyanoy
12. Ratchets, rectifiers and demons: the constructive role of noise in free energy and signal transduction R. Dean Astumian
13. Cellular transduction of periodic and stochastic energy signals by electroconformational coupling Tian Y. Tsong
Part IV. Nonlinear Control of Biological and Other Excitable Systems: 14. Controlling chaos in dynamical systems Kenneth Showalter
15. Electromagnetic fields and biological tissues: from nonlinear response to chaos control William L. Ditto and Mark L. Spano
16. Epilepsy: multistability in a dynamic disease John G. Milton
17. Control and perturbation of wave propagation in excitable systems Oliver Steinbock and Stefan C. Müller
18. Changing paradigms in biomedicine: implications for future research and clinical applications Jan Walleczek
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Subject Areas: Biochemistry [PSB], Biophysics [PHVN]