Contents

pp v-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xiv

Introduction: Long-Term Potentiation as a Model for Memory Mechanisms: The Story So Far

pp 1-34

Section One - Long-Term Potentiation In Vitro and In Vivo: How Can We Fine-Tune the Current Models for Memory Formation?

pp 35-36

1 - Persisting with Long-Term Potentiation as a Memory Mechanism: Clues from Variations in Long-Term Potentiation Maintenance

pp 37-57

2 - Long-Term Potentiation in the Amygdala: Implications for Memory

pp 58-76

3 - Multiple Roles for Synoptic Plasticity in Pavlovian Fear Conditioning

pp 77-99

4 - Plasticity of the Hippocampal Cellular Representation of Space

pp 100-122

Section Two - There is More to the Picture Than Long-Term Potentiation: Theta or Gamma Oscillations in the Brain and the Facilitation of Synaptic Plasticity

pp 123-124

5 - Synaptic Potentiation by Natural Patterns of Activity in the Hippocampus: Implications for Memory Formation

pp 125-136

6 - Plasticity in Local Neuronal Circuits: In Vivo Evidence from Rat Hippocampus and Amygdala

pp 137-145

7 - Theta-Facilitated Induction of Long-Term Potentiation: A Better Model for Memory Formation?

pp 146-166

8 - Role of Gamma Oscillations for Information Processing and Memory Formation in the Neocortex

pp 167-192

Section Three - Making Models from Empirical Data of Synaptic Plasticity

pp 193-194

9 - Toward a Physiologic Explanation of Behavioral Data on Human Memory: The Role of Theta-Gamma Oscillations and NMDAR-Dependent LTP

pp 195-223

10 - Neuronal Networks, Synaptic Plasticity, and Memory Systems in Primates

pp 224-262

11 - Revisiting the LTP Orthodoxy: Plasticity versus Pathology

pp 263-293

12 - Long-Term Potentiation and Associative Learning: Can the Mechanism Subserve the Process?

pp 294-324

Section Four - Setting the Stage for Memory Formation: Stress, Arousal, and Attention

pp 325-326

13 - Strategies for Studying the Role of LTP in Spatial Learning: What Do We Know? Where Should We Go?

pp 327-345

14 - What Studies in Old Rats Tell Us about the Role of LTP in Learning and Memory

pp 346-361

15 - Implications of the Neuropsychology of Anxiety for the Functional Role of LTP in the Hippocampus

pp 362-378

16 - Differential Effects of Stress on Hippocampal and Amygdaloid LTP: Insight Into the Neurobiology of Traumatic Memories

pp 379-404

Section Five - Transgenic Mice as Tools to Unravel the Mechanisms of Memory Formation

pp 405-406

17 - In Vivo Recording of Single Hippocampal Place Cells in Behaving Transgenic Mice

pp 407-426

18 - Understanding Synaptic Plasticity and Learning through Genetically Modified Animals

pp 427-449

19 - What Gene Activation Can Tell Us about Synoptic Plasticity and the Mechanisms Underlying the Encoding of the Memory Trace

pp 450-475

Conclusions and Future Targets

pp 476-490

Index

pp 491-493