Cellular Mechanisms of Conditioning and Behavioral Plasticity
[Book]
edited by Charles D. Woody, Daniel L. Alkon, James L. McGaugh.
Boston, MA
Springer US : Imprint : Springer
1988
(XIV, 537 pages)
I --;Some Different Perspectives on the Basic Mechanisms --;1. The Cellular Basis for Short-Term Memory in Endocrine Systems --;2. An Increased Basal Calcium Hypothesis for Long-Term Potentiation of Transmitter Release in Bullfrog Sympathetic Ganglia --;3. Sprouting as a Basis for Classical Conditioning in the Cat --;4. Is Conditioning Supported by Modulation of an Outward Current in Pyramidal Cells of the Motor Cortex of Cats? --;5. Conservation of Cellular Mechanisms for Models of Learning and Memory --;II --;Long-Term Potentiation --;6. Long-Term Potentiation of Synaptic Transmission in the Hippocampus Obeys Hebb's Rule for Synaptic Modification --;7. Chloride-Mediated Feedforward Inhibition Is Not Involved in Long-Term Potentiation --;8.?-Adrenergic Mechanisms in Long-Term Potentiation and Norepinephrine-Induced Long-Lasting Potentiation --;9. Mechanisms of Noradrenergic Modulation of Dentate Gyrus Long-Term Plasticity --;III --;Conditioning --;10. Conditioning-Specific Biophysical Alterations in Rabbit Hippocampus --;11. Serotonin and Aversive Conditioning in Adult and Juvenile Snails --;12. Catecholaminergic and Opioid Mechanisms in Conditioned Food Intake Behavior of the Monkey Amygdala --;13. The Neural Circuitry Subserving Aversive Conditioning of Contact Placing in Cats: The Necessity of the Internal Pallidum and Dispensability of the Cerebellum --;14. Essential Involvement of Mossy Fibers in Projecting the CS to the Cerebellum during Classical Conditioning --;15. Plasticity in Inferotemporal Cortex-Amygdala-Lateral Hypothalamus Axis during Operant Behavior of the Monkey --;16. Responses of Nucleus Basalis of Meynert Neurons in Behaving Monkeys --;17. Neurophysiological Investigations of Tonic Mechanisms of Conditioning --;18. Hippocampal Units during Single-Alternation Conditioning in the White Rat --;19. Conditioning and Habituation of the Arousal Response: A Historical Perspective --;20. A Preliminary Note on Spatial EEG Correlates of Olfactory Conditioning --;21. A Theoretical Neuronal Learning Mechanism That Predicts the Basic Categories of Classical Conditioning Phenomena --;IV --;Anatomy and Cable Properties --;22. Dendritic Spine Synapses, Excitable Spine Clusters, and Plasticity --;23. Electrodiffusion Model of Electrical Conduction in Neuronal Processes --;24. The Effectiveness of Individual Synaptic Inputs with Uniform and Nonuniform Patterns of Background Synaptic Activity --;25. Passive and Active Properties of Motoneuron Dendrites --;26. Some Conclusions Relevant to Plasticity Derived from Normal Anatomy --;27. Anatomic Observations on Afferent Projections of Orbicularis Oculi and Retractor Bulbi Motoneuronal Cell Groups and Other Pathways Possibly Related to the Blink Reflex in the Cat --;V --;Storing and Retrieving Information --;28. Mammalian Systems for Storing and Retrieving Information --;29. Humanlike Characteristics of Visual Mnemonic System in Macaques --;30. Neuronal Activity in the Inferomedial Temporal Cortex Compared with That in the Hippocampal Formation: Implications for Amnesia of Medial Temporal Lobe Origin --;31. Plasma Glucose Regulation of Memory Storage Processes --;32. Behavioral Pharmacology of Memory: Opportunities for Cellular Explanations --;VI --;Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Plasticity --;33. Synaptic Efficacy Is Controlled by the Concentration of Transmitter in the Nerve Ending --;34. Short-Term and Long-Term Plasticity Mediated by Changes in Responding Synapses at Crustacean Neuromuscular Junctions --;35. Postsynaptic Events Associated with Long-Lasting Activity-Induced Changes in Excitability of Neocortical Neurons: Studies in the Anesthetized Rat and in Slices in Vitro --;36. Postsynaptic Activity-Dependent Facilitation of Excitatory Synaptic Transmission in the Neocortex --;37. The Role of Neuronal Activity in the Long-Term Regulation of Synaptic Performance at the Crayfish Neuromuscular Junction --;38. Long-Term Effects of Firing on Excitability of Hippocampal CA1 Neurons --;39. Locus-Coeruleus-Induced Enhancement of the Perforant-Path-Evoked Potential: Effects of Intradentate? Blockers --;40. Persistent Changes of Single-Cell Responses in Kitten Striate Cortex Produced by Pairing Sensory Stimulation with Iontophoretic Application of Neurotransmitters and Neuromodulators --;41. Norepinephrine-Dependent Neuronal Plasticity in Kitten Visual Cortex --;42. Possible Indications of Noradrenergic Involvement in Behavioral Plasticity --;VII --;Biophysical Considerations and New Approaches --;43. Digital Imaging of Ca2+ Levels in CNS Neurons under Conditions That Induce Facilitating Increases in Ca2+ Levels and Sustained Ca2+ Elevation --;44. A Method to Investigate a Metabolic Process in a Single Neuron and Its Utilization in the Study of Fast Axonal Transport of Acetylcholine in a Cholinergic Neuron of Aplysia --;45. Modulation of the GABA- and Pentobarbital-Gated Cl Current by Intracellular Calcium in Frog Sensory Neurons --;46. Contrasting Roles of a Brain-Specific Protein Kinase C Substrate: Has Protein F1 Evolved a New Function in CNS of Higher Vertebrates? --;47. Evolutionary Origin of Electrical Excitability --;Contributors.
I would like first to thank Charles Woody and his organizing committee for arranging the symposium on the "Cellular Mechanisms of Conditioning and Behavioral Plasticity," which was also a satellite meeting of the International Union of Physiological Sciences 30th International Congress.
Medicine.
Neurosciences.
Psychology, clinical.
QP416
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E358
1988
edited by Charles D. Woody, Daniel L. Alkon, James L. McGaugh.