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Information flows in complex networks
provide important insights into the underlying communication structures and the roles of individual members within a global organizational framework. Such interdependences are not only observed in global markets, social networks and technical systems, but they also - and in particular - play an important role in brain research.

Structure and function of the brain
have many different levels and their complex interrelations often give way only after intense research efforts. Our goal is the decipherment of the communication structures of the brain to characterize the roles of its anatomical components and to understand the information flow between these constituents. These systems analyses aim at a deeper understanding of brain disorders and at the development of novel therapeutic strategies.

Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience
are terms for this approach. The spectrum of methods recruits tools from database programming, statistics, computer simulation and systems theory, and confronts these with a multitude of experimental neurobiological data about the structure and function of the nervous system.

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Rolf Kötter. 01/2006.