"How the brain accomplishes many of its more complex tasks can only be properly understood via the study of neuronal network control mechanisms and the interactions among networks. Large networks are able to undergo major changes, resulting in substantial alterations of brain function, affecting everything from learning to the potential for epilepsy and other CNS disorders ... the volume serves to advance the understanding of how the brain carries out important tasks via networks, how these networks interact in normal brain function, major mechanisms that control network activity, and the interaction of the normal networks to produce more complex behaviors. The chapters also show how brain disorders can result from adnormal network interactions, and how therapy of these disorders can be advanced through this network approach."--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to neuronal networks of the brain Carl L. Faingold, Hal Blumenfeld -- Network models of absence seizures Alain Destexhe -- Functional magnetic resonance imaging in epilepsy methods and applications using awake animals Craig F. Ferris, Jeffrey Tenney -- Network experimental approaches inactivation, microinjection, neuronal stimulation, and recording Hua-Jun Feng and Carl L. Faingold -- Network experimental approaches ex vivo recording Victor V. Uteshev -- Network imaging Jennifer N. Guo, Hal Blumenfeld -- Network control mechanisms cellular inputs, neuroactive substances, and synaptic changes Carl L. Faingold -- Volume transmission and the Russian-doll organization of brain cell networks aspects of their integrative actions L.F. Agnati, S. Genedani, P.F. Spano, D. Guidolin, K. Fuxe -- Electrophysiological mechanisms of network control bursting in the brain : from cells to networks Taufik A. Valiante, Peter L. Carlen -- Network control mechanisms cellular milieu Victor V. Uteshev, Alexander G. Gusev, Evgeny A. Sametsky -- Neuronal network mechanisms sex and development Aristea S. Galanopoulou, Solomon L. Moshé -- Astrocytic regulation of synapses, neuronal networks, and behavior Michael M. Halassa, Marcello D'Ascenzo, Anna Boccaccio, Tommaso Fellin -- The fear memory network Glenn E. Schafe -- Orchestration of the circadian clock network by the suprachiasmatic nucleus Shelley A. Tischkau, Stacey L. Krager -- mTOR signaling in cortical network development Tiffany V. Lin, Angelique Bordey -- Network control mechanisms synaptogenesis and epilepsy development Kevin Staley, Jonas Dyhrfjeld-Johnsen, Waldemar Swiercz, F. Edward Dudek -- The brain and spinal cord networks controlling locomotion Larry M. Jordan, Urszula Sławińska -- The brainstem respiratory network Tara G. Bautista, Teresa E. Pitts, Paul M. Pilowsky, Kendall F. Morris -- Visual network Moran Furman -- Auditory neuronal networks and chronic tinnitus Thomas J. Brozoski, Carol A. Bauer -- Consciousness and subcortical arousal systems Joshua Motelow, Hal Blumenfeld -- Networks of normal and disordered sleep Pierre-Hervé Luppi, Patrice Fort -- Networks for the modulation of acute and chronic pain Inna Sukhotinsky, Marshall Devor -- Networks in mood and anxiety disorders Hamada Hamid -- Neuronal networks and therapeutics in neurodegenerative disorders Amanda-Amrita D. Lakraj, Bahman Jabbari, Duarte G. Machado -- Neuronal networks in epilepsy comparative audiogenic seizure networks Carl L. Faingold, Manish Raisinghani, Prosper N'Gouemo -- Physiological and pathophysiological expansion of neuronal networks Prosper N'Gouemo, Norberto Garcia-Cairasco, Carl L. Faingold -- Neuronal network plasticity and network interactions are critically dependent on conditional multireceptive (CMR) brain regions Carl L. Faingold, Awais Riaz, James D. Stittsworth, Jr. -- Neuronal network interactions in the startle reflex, learning mechanisms, and CNS disorders, including sudden unexpected death in epilepsy Carl L. Faingold, Srinivasan Tupal -- Emergent properties of neuronal networks Carl L. Faingold -- Neuronal network involvement in stimulation therapies for CNS disorders Carl L. Faingold, Hua-Jun Feng -- Neuronal network effects of drug therapies for CNS disorders Carl L. Faingold -- Future trends in neuronal networks selective and combined targeting of network hubs Carl L. Faingold, Hal Blumenfeld.