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Mechanisms of 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sweatt, J. David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, �2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.