This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of brain*b1behavior relations as they bear on learning and memory. The structure of memory is investigated from a diversity of approaches, including anatomical, pharmacological, electrophysiological and lesions, and through the use of different populations, such as invertebrate, vertebrate, and human.
Recenzijos
The coverage is broad, but to the point, and well written. --DENNIS DAHL, The University of Texas at Dallas
Historical Introduction: N. Donegan and R.F. Thompson, The Search for
the Engram. Anatomy: J.E. Black and W.T. Greenough, Developmental Approaches
to the Memory Process. K.A. Crutcher, Anatomical Correlates of Neuronal
Plasticity. Pharmacology and Biochemistry: J.L. Martinez, Jr., G. Schulteis,
and S.B. Weinberger, How to Increase and Decrease the Strength of Memory
Traces: The Effects of Drugs and Hormones. R.E. Brinton, Biochemical
Correlates of Learning and Memory. C.A. Barnes, Memory Changes with Age:
Neurobiological Correlates. Model Systems: T.J. Teyler, Memory:
Electrophysiological Analogs. J.H. Byrne and T. Crow, Examples of Mechanistic
Analyses of Learning and Memory in Invertebrates. J.P. Pascoe, W.F. Supple,
and B.S. Kapp, Learning and Memory: Vertebrate Models. R.F. Berman,
Electrical Brain Stimulation Used to Study Mechanisms and Models of Memory.
Integrative Systems: D.S. Olton, Experimental Strategies to Identify the
Neurobiological Bases of Memory. M. Verfaellie and L.S. Cermak,
Neuropsychological Issues in Amnesia. R.P. Kesner, Neurobiological Views of
Memory. Index.
Joe L. Martinez, Jr. is a Ewing Halsell Distinguished Chair at the University of Texas, San Antonio. His research focusses on the memory and the hippocampus with special attention to the opioid containing mossy fiver-CA3 projection. His recent work had identified important genes that are upregulated in the hippocampus following learning. Raymond Kesner is currently a Full Professor at the University of Utah where he has been a faculty member for 40 years. His major research interests are in the theoretical and applied aspects associated with the neurobiological basis of learning and memory in both animals and humans. He has also concentrated on the development of animal models paralleling mnemonic symptomatology in brain damaged patients.
