Advances in synaptic plasticity / edited by Michel Baudry, Joel L. Davis and Richard F. Thompson.

Prepared as an update to: Synaptic plasticity : molecular, cellular, and fucntional aspects. MIT Press, 1993.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Learning about activity-dependent genes / Dietmar Kuhl -- Synaptic regulation of messenger RNA trafficking within neurons / Oswald Steward, Christopher S. Wallace, and Paul F. Worley -- Matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases in neuronal plasticity and pathology / Santiago Rivera and Michel Khrestchatisky -- Long-term potentiation / Dominique Muller, Nicolas Toni, and Pierre-Alain Buchs -- Role of synaptic geometry in the dynamics and efficacy of synaptic transmission / Jim-Shih Liaw [and others] -- Neuron/glia signaling and use-dependent modification of synaptic strength / David J. Linden -- Anatomical plasticity in the striatum during development and after lesions in the adult rat / Marie-Françoise Chesselet [and others] -- Pathway-specific regulation of synapses in the thalamocortical system / Barry W. Connors [and others] -- Dynamic representation of odors by oscillating neural assemblies / Gilles Laurent [and others] -- Frequency-dependent synaptic transmission in the neocortex / Henry Markram [and others] -- Neurobiological substrates of associative memory / François S. Roman [and others] -- Purkinje local circuit as an example of a functional unit in the nervous system / Gilbert A. Chauvet and Pierre Chauvet -- Synaptic plasticity / Michel Baudry and Richard F. Thompson.

Print version record.

Many neurons exhibit plasticity; that is, they can change structurally or functionally, often in a lasting way. Plasticity is evident in such diverse phenomena as learning and memory, brain development, drug tolerance, sprouting of axon terminals after a brain lesion, and various cellular forms of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity such as long-term potentiation and long-term depression. This book, a follow-up to the editors' Synaptic Plasticity (MIT Press, 1993), reports on the most recent trends in the field. The levels of analysis range from molecular to cellular and network, the unifying theme being the nature of the relationships between synaptic plasticity and information processing and storage. Contributors : Yael Amitai, Michel Baudry, Theodore W. Berger, Pierre-Alain Buchs, A.K. Butler, Franck A. Chaillan, Gilbert A. Chauvet, Marie-Françoise Chesselet, Barry W. Connors, Taraneh Ghaffari, Jay R. Gibson, Ziv Gil, Michel Khrestchatisky, Dietmar Kuhl, Carole E. Landisman, Gilles Laurent, Jim-Shih Liaw, David J. Linden, Katrina MacLeod, Henry Markram, W.V. Morehouse, Dominique Muller, J.A. Napieralski, Santiago Rivera, François S. Roman, Bernard Soumireu-Mourat, Oswald Steward, Mark Stopfer, F.G. Szele, Richard F. Thompson, Nicolas Toni, Bernard Truchet, Misha Tsodyks, K. Uryu, Ascher Uziel, Christopher S. Wallace, Yun Wang, Michael Wehr, Paul F. Worley, Xiaping Xie.

English.

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