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Journal of Integrative Neuroscience (JIN)
An Interdisciplinary Journal
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 DECEMBER 2005
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Non-synaptic Communication in Brains and Integrative functions : a special issue honoring Paul Bach-y-Rita, Wisconsin University Medical School and Biomedical Engineering
The synaptic model of neurocommunication in the brain has dominated the neurosciences for more than a century. Generally, little consideration is given to other modes of neurotransmission in animal and human brains, even though there is indirect evidence that less than half of the communication between cells is by synapses. Non-synaptic diffusion neurotransmission may be the primary information transmission mechanism in certain normal and abnormal functions. Non-synaptic diffusion is vastly more economical than synaptic transmission in regards to space and energy expenditure in the brain, and may play a role in the evolution of species and in a proposed Law of Conservation of Energy and Space in the Brain. In view of the non-synaptic nature of much of the brain's information management, mechanistic concepts, such as comparisons of the brain to a digital computer become less tenable than is conventionally believed. The human brain is much more technically sophisticated than any
present or even presently foreseeable electronic device. Even the nervous systems of insects defy simulation on the most advanced computers.
"We see with our brains not eyes" .............Paul Bach-y-Rita
Paul Bach-y-Rita, M.D. is a professor of rehabilitation medicine and of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He is also chief scientist and chairman of the Board of WICAB. His discoveries have enabled the blind to see, the victims of leprosy to feel, and the quadriplegic to enjoy sex. He has researched and published extensively in human-machine interfaces, related neuroscience and Rehabilitation Engineering, brain plasticity, brain neurotransmission, development of instrumentation for home rehabilitation, development of late rehabilitation of brain damaged and of persons with facial paralysis, and functional assessment by computer image analysis. The books that he has written, edited, or co-authored include Nonsynaptic Diffusion Neurotransmission and Late Brain Reorganization, Vitamins: Their Use and Abuse, Brain Mechanisms in Sensory Substitution, Recovery of Function: Theoretical Considerations for Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Traumatic Brain Injury (Comprehensive
Neurologic Rehabilitation, Vol 2). He was founding director (starting in 1975) of the San Francisco Rehabilitation Engineering Center. He is the co-inventor of the tongue human-machine interface.
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Dr. Stephen W. Kercel
2 Brian Drive
Brunswick ME 04011 USA
Phone: (207) 729-4504
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E-mail: kercel1@suscom-maine.net
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<DIV>Dr. Stephen W. Kercel<BR>2 Brian Drive</DIV>
<DIV>Brunswick ME 04011 USA<BR><BR>Phone: (207) 729-4504<BR>FAX: (207) 729-6226<BR>E-mail: <A href="http://us.f811.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=kercel1@suscom-maine.net" target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>kercel1@suscom-maine.net</FONT></A> </DIV></DIV>
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