Main description:

Mechanisms of Memory, Third Edition, is the only available comprehensive overview of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying higher-order learning and memory. Focusing on mechanisms relevant to hippocampus-dependent memory formation, the book progresses systematically from behavior to cellular physiology at molecular and genetic levels. Moreover, it integrates modern discoveries concerning learning and memory disorders, from inherited disorders, to aging and psychiatric disorders. The book emphasizes results from the cutting-edge of contemporary methodologies, such as genetic engineering, molecular biology, complex behavioral characterization, cellular physiology, epigenetics and molecular structure.

This updated edition has been expanded to include eight new chapters covering the role of the prefrontal cortex in short-term and working memory, recent discoveries regarding the CNS dopamine system and its implications for reward-based learning, glial cell function in memory formation, the role of altered protein synthesis in long-term memory formation, AMPA receptor trafficking and regulation, and the role of epigenetics in memory formation.

This new release continues to be the standard work on all aspects of learning and memory. As such, it is essential reading for students and researchers alike.

Contents:

1. Basics of Psychological Learning and Memory Theory 2. Studies of Human Learning and Memory 3. Short-Term and Working Memory 4. Non-Associative Learning and Memory (including pain plasticity) 5. Rodent Behavioral Learning and Memory Models 6. Associative Learning and Unlearning 7. Reward Learning and Addiction 8. Hippocampal Function in Cognition 9. Long-Term Potentiation 10. NMDA Receptor 11. Glial Cell Function in Memory Formation 11. Biochemical Mechanisms for Information Storage 12. Synaptic Structure, AMPA Receptors and Plasticity 13. Protein Synthesis in Long-Term Potentiation and Memory 14. Molecular Genetic Mechanisms for LTM 15. Epigenetic Mechanisms and Cellular Memory 16. Inherited Disorders of Human Memory 17. Memory Dysfunction in Psychiatric Disorders 18. Age-Related Memory Disorders

Appendix I. Hypothesis Testing II. Basic Statistical Methods for Behavioral Data Analysis