Sleep and brain plasticity / edited by P. Maquet, C. Smith and R. Stickgold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maquet, P. (Pierre)

Smith, C. (Carlyle)

Stickgold, R. (Robert)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sleep--Physiological aspects.

Sleep.

Dreams.

Neuroplasticity.

Physical Description:

xvi, 379 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

We spend so much of our lives sleeping, yet its precise function is unclear, in spite of our increasing understanding of the processes generating and maintaining sleep. We now know that sleep can be accompanied by periods of intense cerebral activity, yet only recently have experimental data started to provide us with some insights into the type of processing taking place in the brain as we sleep. There is now strong evidence that sleep plays a crucial role in learning and in the consolidation of memories. Once the preserve of psychoanalysts, 'dreaming' is now a topic of increasing interest amongst scientists. With research into sleep growing, this volume is both timely and valuable in presenting a unique study of the relationship between sleep, learning, and memory. It brings together a team of international scientists researching sleep in both human and animal subjects. Aimed at researchers within the fields of neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and neurology, this book will be an important first step in developing a full scientific understanding of one of our most intriguing human characteristics.

Contents:

Section I Human Behavior

1 Memory, cognition, and dreams / Robert Stickgold 17

2 Human studies of sleep and off-line memory reprocessing / Robert Stickgold 41

3 Roles of early and late nocturnal sleep for the consolidation of human memories / Jan Born, Steffen Gais 65

4 A role for stage 2 sleep in memory processing / Rebecca Nader, Carlyle Smith 87

Section II Animal Behavior

5 Expression and modulation of memory traces during paradoxical sleep / Elizabeth Hennevin 101

6 The REM sleep window and memory processing / Carlyle Smith 117

7 Activation of phasic pontine wave (P-wave): a mechanism of learning and memory processing / Subimal Datta, Elissa H. Patterson 135

8 The role of sleep in memory processing: the sequential hypothesis / Antonio Giuditta, Paola Mandile, Paola Montagnese, Stefania Piscopo, Stefania Vescia 157

Section III Sleep and Neural Development

9 Role of REM sleep in brain development and plasticity / Majid Mirmiran, Ronald L. Ariagno 181

10 The role of sleep in the development of central visual pathways / Marcos G. Frank, Michael P. Stryker 189

Section IV Systems Level

11 Cerebral correlates of memory consolidation during human sleep: contribution of functional neuroimaging / Philippe Peigneux, Steven Laureys, Axel Cleeremans, Pierre Maquet 209

12 Off-line reprocessing of recent memory and its role in memory consolidation: a progress report / B. L. McNaughton, C. A Barnes, F. P. Battaglia, M. R. Bower, S. L. Cowen, A. D. Ekstrom, J. L. Gerrard, K. L. Hoffman, F. P. Houston, Y. Karten, P. Lipa, C. M. A. Pennartz, G. R. Sutherland 225

13 Maintenance and modification of firing rates and sequences in the hippocampus: does sleep play a role? / Gyorgy Buzsaki, Daniel Carpi, Jozsef Csicsvari, George Dragoi, Kenneth Harris, Darrell Henze, Hajime Hirase 247

14 Neuronal plasticity during sleep oscillations in corticothalamic systems / Mircea Steriade, Igor Timofeev 271

Section V Cellular level

15 Molecular mechanisms of memory consolidation / Kevin M. Hellman, Ted Abel 295

16 Recent evidence of memory processing in sleep / Constantine Pavlides, Sidarta Ribeiro 327

17 Sleep modulation of the expression of plasticity markers / James M. Krueger, Ferenc Obal Jr., Joseph W. Harding, John W. Wright, Lynn Churchill 363.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198574002

OCLC:

52286813