BURSTING: THE GENESIS OF RHYTHM IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

• # Bursting at the Single Cell Level: # The Development of the Hindmarshrose Model for Bursting (J Hindmarsh & P Cornelius) # Negative Calcium Feedback: The Road from Chay-Keizer (R Bertram & A Sherman) # Autoregulation of Bursting of AVP Neurons of the Rat Hypothalamus (P Roper et al.) # Bifurcations in the Fast Dynamics of Neurons: Implications for Bursting (J Guckenheimer et al.) # Bursting in 2-Compartment Neurons: A Case Study of the Pinsky-Rinzel Model (A Bose & V Booth) # Ghostbursting: The Role of Active Dendrites in Electrosensory Processing (C R Laing & B Doiron) # Bursting at the Network Level: # Analysis of Circuits Containing Bursting Neurons Using Phase Resetting Curves (C Canavier) # Bursting in Coupled Cell Systems (M Golubitsky et al.) # Modulatory Effects of Coupling on Bursting Maps (G de Vries) # Beyond Synchronization: Modulatory and Emergent Effects of Coupling in Square-Wave Bursting (G de Vries & A Sherman) # Bursting in Excitatory Neural Networks (J Tabak & J Rinzel) # Oscillatory Bursting Mechanisms in Respiratory Pacemaker Neurons and Networks (R Butera et al.) # Geometric Analysis of Bursting Networks (J Best & D Terman) # Elliptic Bursters, Depolarization Block, and Waves (B Ermentrout et al.)

"All of the chapters are clearly written and for the most part would be accessible to readers who have taken at least an undergraduate course that covers modeling of neuronal dynamics ... The excitement generated by this collection of papers stems from the demonstration that appropriate interdisciplinary teams are indeed forming to tackle the outstanding issues."Mathematical Reviews