Brain and Memory Modulation and Mediation of Neuroplasticity

by McGaugh, James L.; Weinberger, Norman M.; Lynch, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780195082944
• ISBN10: 019508294X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

We are approaching the end of the first century of attempts to discover how the brain enables us to acquire, retain, and use information based on experience. The past several decades especially have witnessed an ever accelerating pace of research. This increase is due in large part to the development of new techniques for the analysis of brain and behavior. But, to a greater extent, these advances have been fueled by some seminal findings and the accumulation of knowledge based on systematic inquiry in many laboratories around the world. This important volume, authored by internationally renowned leaders in the field, is a progress report on this burgeoning work. What processes underlie the formation of new memories? What determines their strength? Where are the changes underlying memory located? In judging recent progress, this book looks at what we have learned about each of these questions. Furthermore, the contributors look at how these questions are rephrased and refined by new findings, hypotheses, and theories. Topics include: emotion and memory, aging and memory, plasticity of the cerebral cortex, and synaptic connectivity and memory. This book will be welcomed by neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and cognitive scientists.

Table of Contents

Emotion and Memory

Neural Systems of Emotion: The Amygdala's Role in Fear and Anxiety

Modulation of Emotional and Non-Emotional Memories: Same Pharmacological Systems, Different Neuroanatomical Systems

Psychophysiology of Emotional Memory Networks in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Emotion's Multiple Effects on Memory

Emotional Memory: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Aging and Memory

Cognition and Hippocampal Systems in Aging: Animal Models

Animal Models of Multiple Neurotransmitter Interactions in Alzheimer's Disease

Retention of Function in the Aged Brain: The Pivotal Role of Beta-amylid

Models of Age-Related Memory Decline

Non-Genetic Factors in the Individuality of Brain Aging: Cell Numbers, Developmental Environment, and Disease

Cortical Plasticity

The Dynamic Nature of Adult Visual Cortex

The Plasticity of Sensory Representations in Adult Primates

In Vitro Studies of Visual Cortical Plasticity

Mechanisms of Learning, Memory, and Plasticity in Adult Sensory Cortex

Gradients of Cortical Plasticity

Hippocampal Synaptic Enhancement as a Basis for Learning and Memory: A Selected Review of Current Evidence from Behaving Animals

Neural Mechanisms of Associative Memory: Role of Long-Term Potentiation

Parallel Properties of LTP and Memory

On the Relevance of LTP to Learning and Memory

Is LTP a Plausible Basis for Memory?

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