Description This selection of reviews gives an up-to-date picture of memory research. Great progress has been made in identifying the memory trace
at the molecular and cellular level and individual reviews address the major mechanisms by which changes in synaptic strength can persist.
Exciting research at the systems level is also reviewed including the growing importance of changes in inhibitory interneurons and how
they play a role in memory formation. Finally, reviews present cognitive and neurobiological models of human memory that explain, characterize
and organize the act of memory within a coherent framework.
Audience
Neuroscientists, psychologists, psychiatrists and
basic and clinical researches in medical fields interested in memory research.
Contents Wayne S. Sossin, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Jean-Claude Lacaille, Department of Physiology
Vincent F. Castellucci, Department
of Physiology
Sylvie Belleville, Department of Psychology
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada
SECTION I. CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO THE ESSENCE OF MEMORY
Molecular memory traces
W.S. Sossin
PKMĪ¶,LTP Maintenance,
and the dynamic molecular biology of memory storage
T.C. Sacktor
Understanding the importance of mRNA transport in memory
M. Del Rayo
S nchez-Carbente and L. DesGroseillers
Cap-dependent translation initiation and memory
J.L. Banko and E. Klann
Translational control
of gene expression: a molecular switch for memory storage
M. Costa-Mattioli and N. Sonenberg
Regulation of hippocampus-dependent memory
by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase
T. Abel and P.V. Nguyen
Synaptic tagging and cross-tagging and related associative reinforcement
processes of functional plasticity as the cellular basis for memory formation
S. Frey and J.U. Frey
Synaptic plasticity in learning and
memory: stress effects in the hippocampus
J.G. Howland and Y.-T. Wang
The role of the GluR-A (GluR1) AMPA receptor subunit in learning
and memory
D.J. Sanderson, M.A. Good, P.H. Seeburg, R. Sprengel, J.N.P. Rawlins and D.M. Bannerman
Synaptic remodelling, synaptic growth
and the storage of long-term memory in aplysia
C.H. Bailey and E.R. Kandel
Spine dynamics and synapse remodelling during LTP and memory
processes
M. De Roo, P. Klauser, P. Mendez Garcia, L. Poglia and D. Muller
SECTION II. SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO THE ESSENCE OF MEMORY
The
age of plasticity: developmental regulation of synaptic plasticity in neocortical microcircuits
A. Maffei and G. Turrigiano
Differential
mechanisms of transmission and plasticity at mossy fiber synapses
C.J. McBain
Long-term synaptic plasticity in hippocampal feedback
inhibitory networks
J.G. Pelletier and J.-C. Lacaille
Persistent neural activity in the prefrontal cortex: a mechanism by which BDNF
regulates working memory?
E.M. Galloway, N.H. Woo and B. Lu
SECTION III. ANIMAL APPROACHES TO THE ESSENCE OF MEMORY
Animal models and
behaviour: their importance for the study of memory
V.F. Castellucci
New tricks for an old slug: the critical role of postsynaptic mechanisms
in learning and memory in aplysia
D.L. Glanzman
Olfactory memory traces in Drosophila
J. Berry, W.C. Krause and R.L. Davis
Associative
learning signals in the brain
W.A. Suzuki
SECTION IV. HUMAN APPROACHES TO THE ESSENCE OF MEMORY
What are the differences between long-term,
short-term, and working memory?
N. Cowan
Encoding-retrieval overlap in human episodic memory: a functional neuroimaging perspective
M.D. Rugg, J.D. Johnson, H. Park and M.R. Uncapher
Cognitive aging and increased distractibility: costs and potential benefits
M.K.
Healey, K.L. Campbell and L. Hasher
Characterizing the memory changes in persons with mild cognitive impairment
S. Belleville, S. Sylvain-Roy,
C. De Boysson and M.-C. M nard
Aging, metamemory regulation and executive functioning
M. Isingrini, A. Perrotin and C. Souchay
Cognitive
neuroscience studies of semantic memory in Alzheimer's disease
H. Chertkow, C. Whatmough, D. Saumier and A. Duong
The effects of surgery
and anesthesia on memory and cognition
C. Nicole, T. Rame, Q. Yanqin and B. Gilbert
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