Mechanisms of memory /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sweatt, J. David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The basics of psychological learning and memory theory
  • Rodent behavioral learning and memory models
  • The hippocampus serves a role in multimodal information processing, and memory consolidation
  • Long-term potentiation as a physiological phenomenon
  • Complexities of long-term potentiation
  • The biochemistry of LTP induction
  • Biochemical mechanisms for short-term information storage at the cellular level
  • Biochemical mechanisms for long-term information storage at the cellular level
  • LTP does not equal memory
  • Inherited disorders of human memory - mental retardation syndromes
  • Aging-related memory disorders - Alzheimer's disease
  • The chemistry of perpetual memory