Workshop Multistability in Neurodynamics

July 30 at the 19th annual CNS*2010 meeting

Organizer: Gennady Cymbalyuk, Neuroscience Institute at GSU, USA

This workshop is focused on the co-existence of regimes of activity of neurons. Such multistability enhances potential flexibility to the nervous system and has many implications for motor control, dynamical memory, information processing, and decision making. The goal of this workshop is to identify the scenarios leading to multistability in the neuronal dynamics and discuss its potential roles in the operation of the central nervous system under normal and pathological conditions. It is intensively studied on different levels. On the cellular level, multistability is co-existence of basic regimes like bursting, spiking, sub-threshold oscillations and silence. On the network level, examples of multistability include co-existence of different synchronization modes, “on” and “off” states, polyrhythmic bursting patterns, and co-existence of pathological and functional regimes.

Invited Speakers:
Giri P. Krishnan, University of California Riverside,- Dept. of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Gennady Cymbalyuk, Georgia State University, USA
Rhonda Dzakpasu, Georgetown University, Physics Department
William Lytton, Suny Downstate, - Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology
Jonathan Rubin, University of Pittsburgh,- Dept. of Mathematics
Sharmila Venugopal, Arizona State University,- Center for Adaptive Neural Systems

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