"...integrates experiments and computer modeling into seamless fabric, something still rare in the neurosciences. The use of arguments from statistical physics and dynamical systems theory is compelling and to the point. The monograph should be required reading for any researcher seriously interested in networks of complicated and highly interconnected neurons..." Christof Koch, Science

• Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. The hippocampus in context; 2. Physiology of single neurons: voltage- and ligand-gated ionic channels; 3. Synaptic function and organization of the CA3 region; 4. The single-cell model; 5. Model of the CA3 network; 6. Collective behaviours of the CA3 network: experiment and model; 7. Collective behaviours of the CA3 network: spontaneous oscillations and synchronized synaptic potentials; 8. Field effects; 9. Theoretical approaches: mathematical neural networks; Appendix; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.

"...integrates experiments and computer modeling into seamless fabric, something still rare in the neurosciences. The use of arguments from statistical physics and dynamical systems theory is compelling and to the point. The monograph should be required reading for any researcher seriously interested in networks of complicated and highly interconnected neurons..." Christof Koch, Science

• Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. The hippocampus in context; 2. Physiology of single neurons: voltage- and ligand-gated ionic channels; 3. Synaptic function and organization of the CA3 region; 4. The single-cell model; 5. Model of the CA3 network; 6. Collective behaviours of the CA3 network: experiment and model; 7. Collective behaviours of the CA3 network: spontaneous oscillations and synchronized synaptic potentials; 8. Field effects; 9. Theoretical approaches: mathematical neural networks; Appendix; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.