Neural Plasticity and Memory: From Genes to Brain Imaging (Hardcover)

SEARCHING FOR MEMORY IN THE BRAIN: CONFRONTING THE COLLUSION OF CELLS AND SYSTEMS, J.L. McGaughOne Hundred and Fifty Years of ControversyThe Great Debate: What is Learned - Knowledge or Responses?Brain Systems and Forms of Memory Brain Systems and Memory Functions.Cells and SystemsTwo Centuries of Progress in Research on Brain and MemoryReferencesLONG-TERM POTENTIATION AND DEPRESSION AS PUTATIVE MECHANISMS FOR MEMORY FORMATION, M.L. Escobar and B. DerrickIntroductionLong-Lasting Forms of Synaptic Modification: A Methodological ApproachLTP and LTD: Triggering, Expression, and Maintenance MechanismsPersistent Synaptic Plasticity: A Metaplastic Point of ViewThe Role of Activity-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity in Brain FunctionSubstrates of LTP and LTD - Structural PlasticityNeurotrophins and Synaptic PlasticityExperience-Dependent Modifications - Is LTP Involved in Learning and Memory?Outstanding Questions and New DirectionsMOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY UNDERLYING LONG-TERM MEMORY FORMATION, V. Ramirez-AmayaEarly Signals. Ca2+ and its transducerImmediate early genes.Trophic Factors.ConclusionsMODIFICATION OF BRAIN CIRCUITS THROUGH EXPERIENCE, M.R. RosenzweigBrain Plasticity Discovered through Serendipity Unexpected Discovery of Brain PlasticityCerebral Effects of Experience Occur in All Species Tested Enriched Environments and the BrainNeurochemical Cascades Underlie Modification of Neural Circuits AcknowledgmentsReferencesPRESYNAPTIC STRUCTURAL PLASTICITY AND LONG-LASTING MEMORY: FOCUS ON THE LEARNING-INDUCED REDISTRIBUTION OF HIPPOCAMPAL MOSSY FIBERS, J.L. Rekart, M.R. Holahan, and A. RouttenbergLearning And Structural PlasticityHippocampal Granule Cell Axon Terminals And LearningMechanisms Of Presynaptic Structural PlasticityThe Presynaptic Disparity: Anti-Boutonism or a Biological Reality?ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF TASTE MEMORY, T. Yamamoto and Y. YasoshimaIntroductionCTA paradigmEnhanced response to the CSAlteration of responses reflecting hedonic shiftCS-US associationImportance of amygdala in CTA formationInvolvement of reward systemSummaryCHANGES IN NEUROTRANSMITTERS EXTRACELLULAR LEVELS DURING MEMORY FORMATION, M.I. MirandaIntroductionThe Free Moving Microdialysis TechniqueAcetylcholine Release During Motor Activity, Attention, and Novelty Novelty and Other Neurotransmitter ReleaseLesions and Blockade of Cholinergic Activity During Memory FormationAcetylcholine and Long Term Memory TasksNoradrenaline Release During Memory FormationGlutamate and GABA Release During Memory FormationConclusionsREVERSIBLE BRAIN INACTIVATION OF BRAIN CIRCUITS IN LEARNING AND MEMORY RESEARCH, M. GalloIntroductionThe Brain Lesion Approach and the Dynamic Nature of Learning and Memory SystemsReversible Inactivation TechniquesLearning Behavioral Models and Reversible Inactivation TechniquesDissociating Independent Learning and Memory ProcessesSummaryENHANCED LEARNING PROTECTS THE BRAIN AGAINST THE EFFECTS OF AMNESIC TREATMENTS, R.A. Prado-Alcala, R. Salado-Castillo, C. Quiroz, M.E. Garin-Aguilar, A. Diaz-Trujillo, S. Rivas-Arancibia, and G.L. QuirarteIntroduction Protective Effect of Enhanced TrainingTwo ModelsConclusionsReferencesSTUDIES ON SHORT-TERM AVOIDANCE MEMORY, M. Cammarota, L.R.M. Bevilaqua, J.H. Medina, I. IzquierdoSummaryIntroductionSTM and LTM: Parallel or Sequential?The Role of the Hippocampus in Avoidance STM and LTMThe Role of the Entorhinal Cortex in Avoidance STM and LTMThe Role of Other Cortical Areas and of the Amygdala in IA's Memory Neurobiological Separation of Short and Long Term Avoidance MemorySTM and LTM are Behaviorally DifferentThe Biochemistry of Short Term MemoryPharmacological Analysis of IA's Working MemoryConclusionsReferencesMEMORY RECONSOLIDATION OR UPDATING CONSOLIDATION? C.J. Rodriguez-Ortiz and F. Bermudez-RattoniAbstractThe Consolidation HypothesisThe Reconsolidation EraOn the Restraints of the Reconsolidation HypothesisAre Consolidation and Reconsolidation the Same Process?The Reconsolidation Hypothesis Reconsidered: The Updating Consolidation ProposalAcknowledgmentsReferencesMEMORY IMPAIRMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH STRESS AND AGING, C. SandiThe Concept Of StressThe Physiological Stress ResponseStress And Memory Function Acute Stress And Memory Impairment Neurobiological Mechanisms Involved In The Acute Effects Of Stress On MemoryImpairing Effects Of Chronic Stress On Cognitive FunctionNeurobiological Mechanisms Involved In The Deleterious Effects Of Chronic Stress On Brain And BehaviorStress And AgingAgingMemory Deficits In The Aging Human Population Neurobiological Mechanisms Associated To Age-Related Cognitive Decline In HumansMemory Deficits In Aged RodentsAging And Structural And Functional PlasticityConclusionsReferencesADRENAL STRESS HORMONES AND ENHANCED MEMORY FOR EMOTIONALLY AROUSING EXPERIENCES, C.K. McIntyre and B. RoozendaalIntroductionStress Hormone Effects on Memory ConsolidationStress Hormones Selectively Enhance Memory Consolidation of Emotionally Arousing ExperiencesInvolvement of the Amygdala in Mediating Stress Hormone Effects on Memory ConsolidationRole of Emotional Arousal-Induced Noradrenergic Activation Within the Amygdala in Enabling Epinephrine and Glucocorticoid Effects on Memory ConsolidationConclusionsNEURO-IMMUNE ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING, G. Pacheco-Lopez, M.-B. Niemi, H. Engler, and M. Schedlowski.AbstractIntroductionPhenomenon: The Association Between Exteroceptive and Immune Stimuli Theoretical Framework for Neuro-Immune Associative LearningNeurobiology of Neuro-Immune Associative LearningBiological Relevance of Neuro-Immune Associative Learning Clinical relevance of neuro-immune associative learningSummary and future perspectiveReferencesHUMAN BRAIN IMAGING STUDIES OF EMOTIONAL MEMORY: UNCOVERING INFLUENCES OF SEX AND HEMISPHERE, L. CahillAbstractIntroductionThe Amygdala-- Built to ModulateHuman Subject Studies Relating Amygdala Activity to Emotional MemoryAn Aside on Sex Differences in the Brain Sex-Related Influences on the Amygdala Relation to Memory for Emotional Events Sex Difference in Human Amygdala Functional Connectivity at RestPotential Relationship of the Sex-Related Amygdala Hemispheric Specialization to Hemispheric Global/Local Processing BiasSome Implications for Disease StatesSummary