Neural plasticity and memory : from genes to brain imaging / [edited by] Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bermúdez-Rattoni, Federico.

Series:

Frontiers in neuroscience (Boca Raton, Fla.)

Frontiers in neuroscience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Physiological aspects.

Memory.

Neuroplasticity.

Neurobiology.

Memory--physiology.

Neuronal Plasticity--physiology.

Medical Subjects:

Memory--physiology.

Neuronal Plasticity--physiology.

Physical Description:

339 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (partly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2007]

Summary:

A comprehensive, multidisciplinary review, Neural Plasticity and Memory: From Genes to Brain Imaging provides an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the study of the neurobiology of memory. Leading specialists share their scientific experience in the field, covering a wide range of topics where molecular, genetic, behavioral, and brain imaging techniques have been used to investigate how cellular and brain circuits may be modified by experience. In each chapter, researchers present findings and explain their innovative methodologies.

Interdisciplinary reviews focus on how nerve cell circuitry, molecular expression neurotransmitter release, and electrical activity are modified during the acquisition and consolidation of long-term memory. The book also covers receptor activation/deactivation by different neurotransmitters that enable the intracellular activation of second messengers during memory formation. It concludes with a summary of current research on the modulation and regulation that different neurotransmitters and stress hormones have on formation and consolidation of memory.

Features: Explores the molecular mechanisms of brain plasticity, examining the impact of information storage and retrieval, Examines the synaptic communication elements identified as being susceptible to modification through experience, Discusses recent work in memory research including those involving brain imaging, Emphasizes the methodological and conceptual problems inherent at different levels of analysis, Provides an interdisciplinary review of research conducted on the neurobiology of memory.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Searching for Memory in the Brain: Confronting the Collusion of Cells and Systems / James L. McGaugh 1

Chapter 2 Long-Term Potentiation and Depression as Putative Mechanisms for Memory Formation / Martha L. Escobar, Brian Derrick 15

Chapter 3 Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity Underlying Long-Term Memory Formation / Victor Ramirez-Amaya 47

Chapter 4 Modification of Brain Circuits through Experience / Mark R. Rosenzweig 67

Chapter 5 Presynaptic Structural Plasticity and Long-Lasting Memory: Focus on Learning-Induced Redistribution of Hippocampal Mossy Fibers / Jerome L. Rekart, Matthew R. Holahan, Aryeh Routtenberg 95

Chapter 6 Electrophysiological Representation of Taste Memory / Takashi Yamamoto, Yasunobu Yasoshima 113

Chapter 7 Changes in Neurotransmitter Extracellular Levels during Memory Formation / Maria Isabel Miranda 129

Chapter 8 Reversible Inactivation of Brain Circuits in Learning and Memory Research / Milagros Gallo 157

Chapter 9 Enhanced Learning Protects Brain against Effects of Amnesic Treatments / Roberto A. Prado-Alcala, Rigoberto Salado-Castillo, Cesar Quiroz, Maria Eugenia Garin-Aguilar, Arnulfo Diaz-Trujillo, Selva Rivas-Arancibia, Gina L. Quirarte 175

Chapter 10 Studies of Short-Term Avoidance Memory / Martin Cammarota, Lia R.M. Bevilaqua, Jorge H. Medina, Ivan Izquierdo 193

Chapter 11 Memory Reconsolidation or Updating Consolidation? / Carlos J. Rodriguez-Ortiz, Federico Bermudez-Rattoni 209

Chapter 12 Memory Impairments Associated with Stress and Aging / Carmen Sandi 225

Chapter 13 Adrenal Stress Hormones and Enhanced Memory for Emotionally Arousing Experiences / Christa K. McIntyre, Benno Roozendaal 265

Chapter 14 Neuro-Immune Associative Learning / Gustavo Pacheco-Lopez, Maj-Britt Niemi, Harald Engler, Manfred Schedlowski 285

Chapter 15 Human Brain Imaging Studies of Emotional Memory: Uncovering Influences of Sex and Hemisphere / Larry Cahill 311.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0849390702

9780849390708

OCLC:

72774248

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