文档介绍：ANIZED BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS AND
NONLINEAR CONTROL
The growing impact of nonlinear science on biology and medicine is fundamentally
changing our view of anisms and disease processes. This book introduces the
application to biomedicine of a broad range of interdisciplinary concepts from non-
linear dynamics, such as anization, complexity, coherence, stochastic reson-
ance, fractals, and chaos.
The prises 18 chapters written by leading figures in the field. It covers
experimental and theoretical research, as well as the emerging technological possibili-
ties such as nonlinear control techniques for treating pathological biodynamics,
including heart arrhythmias and epilepsy. The chapters review anized dynam-
ics at all major levels of anization, ranging from studies on enzyme
dynamics to psychophysical experiments with humans. Emphasis is on questions such
as how living systems function as a whole, how they transduce and process dynamical
information, and how they respond to external perturbations. The investigated stimuli
cover a variety of different influences, including chemical perturbations, mechanical
vibrations, thermal fluctuations, light exposures and ic signals. The
interaction targets include enzymes and membrane ion channels, biochemical and
ic works, cellular oscillators and signaling systems, and coherent or
chaotic heart and brain dynamics. A major theme of the book is that any integrative
model of the plexity observed in dynamical biology is likely to be
beyond standard reductionist approaches. It also outlines future research needs and
opportunities ranging from theoretical biophysics to cell and molecular biology, and
biomedical engineering.
JAN WALLECZEK is Head of the ics Laboratory and a Senior
Research Scientist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University
School of Medicine. He studied biology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and
then was a Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate at the Max-Planck In