Main description:
This book stands as the first unified overview of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying higher-order learning and memory. It integrates modern discoveries concerning learning and memory disorders such as mental retardation syndromes and Alzheimer's Disease, while also emphasizing the results gained from the cutting-edge research methodologies of genetic engineering, complex behavioral characterization, proteomics, and molecular biology. This book provides a foundation of experimental design that will be useful to all students pursuing an interest in laboratory research. This book is an enlightening and invaluable resource for anyone concerned with memory mechanisms.
- Presents a unified view of memory mechanisms from behavior to genes and drawing examples from many different brain regions, types of learning, and various animal model systems
- Includes numerous practical examples for the new investigator on how to implement research program in the area of learning and memory
- Provides a balanced treatment of the strengths and weaknesses in modern experimental design
Review quote:
"The book is well written and includes interesting and illustrative text inserts as well as colorful fugures with detailed explanations. Mechanisms of Memory is a successful integration of recent discoveries and technological advances applied to learning and memory at many different levels that will appeal to its target audience of advanced undergraduates and graduates across a number of disciplines."
--AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY (November 2005, 162:11)
"This is an exceptional book in more than one aspect. David Sweatt has written a monograph in which long term potentiation (LTP) is central issue. However, this book is not an endless presentation of all the numerous experiments into a context of learning and memory...the book presents a real opportunity for the advanced student, and the interested scientists, to learn more about LTP and how to put it into a perspective...The illustrations in the book are of high quality, informative and to the point. Every chapter is introduced at an abstract level, the last item I wanted to mention which makes this a special book, bringing long term reminiscences of Rothko and Pollock."
- Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy (2005)
Table of contents:
Introduction - 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 memorymental retardation syndromes
Aging-related memory disordersAlzheimer's DiseaseThe chemistry of perpetual memory
This book stands as the first unified overview of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying higher-order learning and memory. It integrates modern discoveries concerning learning and memory disorders such as mental retardation syndromes and Alzheimer's Disease, while also emphasizing the results gained from the cutting-edge research methodologies of genetic engineering, complex behavioral characterization, proteomics, and molecular biology. This book provides a foundation of experimental design that will be useful to all students pursuing an interest in laboratory research. This book is an enlightening and invaluable resource for anyone concerned with memory mechanisms.
- Presents a unified view of memory mechanisms from behavior to genes and drawing examples from many different brain regions, types of learning, and various animal model systems
- Includes numerous practical examples for the new investigator on how to implement research program in the area of learning and memory
- Provides a balanced treatment of the strengths and weaknesses in modern experimental design
Review quote:
"The book is well written and includes interesting and illustrative text inserts as well as colorful fugures with detailed explanations. Mechanisms of Memory is a successful integration of recent discoveries and technological advances applied to learning and memory at many different levels that will appeal to its target audience of advanced undergraduates and graduates across a number of disciplines."
--AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY (November 2005, 162:11)
"This is an exceptional book in more than one aspect. David Sweatt has written a monograph in which long term potentiation (LTP) is central issue. However, this book is not an endless presentation of all the numerous experiments into a context of learning and memory...the book presents a real opportunity for the advanced student, and the interested scientists, to learn more about LTP and how to put it into a perspective...The illustrations in the book are of high quality, informative and to the point. Every chapter is introduced at an abstract level, the last item I wanted to mention which makes this a special book, bringing long term reminiscences of Rothko and Pollock."
- Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy (2005)
Table of contents:
Introduction - 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 memorymental retardation syndromes
Aging-related memory disordersAlzheimer's DiseaseThe chemistry of perpetual memory