Main description:

This title is a full-colour, accessible synthesis of the interdisciplinary field of the neurobiology of learning and memory.It is an accessible textbook for a 'hot' interdisciplinary field. It is extensively illustrated in full-colour.To understand how the brain learns and remembers requires an integration of psychological concepts and behavioral methods with mechanisms of synaptic plasticity systems and systems neuroscience. This new full-colour textbook provides a synthesis of this interdisciplinary field, each chapter making the key concepts transparent and accessible.

Contents:

Introduction: Fundamental Concepts and Historical Foundations; PART ONE: SYNAPTIC BASIS OF MEMORIES; Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity: Introduction; Strengthening Synapses: Assembling Existing Parts; Strengthening Synapses: Generating New Material; Calcium: The Master Plasticity Molecule; Dendritic Spines: The Dynamic Relationship between Function and Structure; PART TWO: MOLECULES AND MEMORIES; Making Memories: Conceptual Issues and Methods; Basics of Memory Formation; Basics of Memory Storage; Memory Modulation Processes; The Fate of Retrieved Memories; PART THREE: NEURAL SYSTEMS AND MEMORY; Memory Sytems and the Hippocampus; The Hippocampus Index and Episodic Memory; Ribot's Law, Systems Consolidation and the Hippocampus; Actions, Habits and the Cortical-Striatal System; Learning about Danger: The Neurobiology of Fear Memories.