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American Zoologist 1993 33(1):3-7; doi:10.1093/icb/33.1.3
© 1993 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Introduction to the Symposium: What is Computational Neurobiology?1

PHILIP S. ULINSKI
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois 60637

SYNOPSIS. Current advances in computational biology are derived from two sets of ideas established in the work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. One is the neuron doctrine, which holds that neurons are the functional units of the nervous system, and has led to detailed models of neuronal properties based on increasing information on the physical and chemical properties of neurons. The second is the idea of networks of neurons with specific patterns of interconnections that has led to a variety of mathematical methods of analyzing such networks. Future work in computational neurobiology promises to be a blend of these two modeling approaches.


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