dense and hard for a first reading on neuroscience, yet so insightful and rigorously scientific, I would recommend it in its entirely for a person with a scientific background which I have and particularly in neurophysiology which I didn't have.
It gives a comprehensive review of the progress in brain oscillations and I absolutely enjoyed the insights, allegories and side remarks.
From now on, I will think of the brain as a Buzsáki's beautifully and universally synchronised orchestra.
Buzaki's understanding of the neural networks and the oscillations that bind them is incredibly comprehensive, He also has a talent unusual for an academic in such a technical and objective field he expresses facts beautifully and with with vividly aesthetic analogies.
This book was a hard read, Thanks to reading a variety of other books on neuroscience, I was able to understand what the author was explaining, but I wouldn't recommend this book to someone who hasn't read any books on neuroscience.
The author discusses oscillation theory and although he does his best to make the concept approachable, it still ends up being fairly esoteric in content because of the technical information he provides.
It is a good book, and one I'd recommend, Just make sure you've grounded yourself in other books on neuroscience, Interesting, but hard to read, A Classic text from an eminent Neuroscientist, But take note that this is a difficult book, even for people that study in the field, the writing is dense, and the ideas presented often cross many pages, the scientific concepts are not simple, not local to a region, nor explained through simple mechanics.
The brain is difficult, rhythms are complicated, the study of these together is a very particular dimension to observe and analyse but it is rough terrain.
I read this as a magical book, early on before I even understood much about the mechanisms that are known to describe Neuron chemical and electrical changes.
The feeling I got was that I was peering into a new world, one which complemented with many other studies I believe will be found to be fundamental.
Do not despair if you are overwhelmed by the content, but if you can extract even a bit, you will have a special idea about the brain.
A broad overview of neurobiological oscillatory phenomena, It could have used a bit more theoretical motivation, but still gave plenty of thoughtprovoking experimental and anatomical findings.
This is NOT a book for laypeople, It is dense, only relevant if you're studying this stuff, It's not an easy introduction, I am a PhD student specializing in brain oscillations, and I found it challenging.
For the mini community of brain scientists, it's great, it's a really broad overview of the main ideas
around how oscillations are generated, how they work, and what function they might have.
For me, it was really helpful to touch base on all the different parts of oscillations I hadn't studied, and get a refresher on how different theories worked.
More importantly, it provides a clear distinction between various theories and interpretations that might otherwise seem mutually exclusive and contradictory.
Studies of mechanisms in the brain that allow complicated things to happen in a coordinated fashion have produced some of the most spectacular discoveries in neuroscience.
This book provides eloquent support for the idea that spontaneous neuron activity, far from being mere noise, is actually
the source of our cognitive abilities.
It takes a fresh look at the coevolution of structure and function in the mammalian brain, illustrating how selfemerged oscillatory timing is the brains fundamental organizer of neuronal information.
The small worldlike connectivity of the cerebral cortex
allows for global computation on multiple spatial and temporal scales.
The perpetual interactions among the multiple network oscillators keep cortical systems in a highly sensitive metastable state and provide energyefficient synchronizing mechanisms via weak links.
In a sequence of cycles, Gyrgy Buzski guides the reader from the physics of oscillations through neuronal assembly organization to complex cognitive processing and memory storage.
His clear, fluid writing accessible to any reader with some scientific knowledge is supplemented by extensive
footnotes and references that make it just as gratifying and instructive a read for the specialist.
The coherent view of a single author who has been at the forefront of research in this exciting field, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in our rapidly evolving understanding of
the brain.
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