Preface

The nervous system is among the most complicated systems in the universe. Although it has been intensively studied during the past decades or even centuries, the

The nervous system is among the most complicated systems in the universe. Although it has been intensively studied during the past decades or even centuries, the complicity of the nervous system makes it difficult to be fully un- derstood via any single/simple methods. Various experimental methods -- including patch clamp recording, intra/ extra-cellular microelectrode recording, local field potential recording, optic imaging, functional MRI, electroen- cephalograph, behavioral study, etc. -- have been applied to investigate the function of the nervous system at vari- ous levels. In addition to the experimental researches, computational studies （including modeling and simulations） are also adopted, the task of which is to describe the features of the nervous system based on the experimental observations/data.