title: The wired network as a learning paradigm for normal and abnormal brain neuronal communication.
abstract: The brain is a highly sophisticated assembly of neuronal networks for interaction with the internal and external environment. Fundamentally, the neuronal communication process is analogous structurally and functionally to the electrical (wire-mediated) network. In particular, both have coupled information-processing and conduction properties. We suggest that the electrical system can be used as a learning paradigm in brain research and clinical practice. Our model shows how the study of wire-mediated networks may be of benefit in tracing overt psychiatric manifestations to intrinsic biological faults in brain circuitry.
authors.affiliation: Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post, Hefer, Israel.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Naisberg
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Modai
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weizman
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002450:Cell Communication; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008954:Models, Biological; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology*