Brain Plasticity, Learning, and Memory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Brain Plasticity, Learning and Memory: Historical Background and Conceptual Perspectives

      • Bruno Will, Pierre Schmitt, John Dalrymple-Alford

      Pages 1-11

3. Developmental Plasticity: The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory during Ontogeny

   1. Alterations induced by early learning and early stimulation

      1. Imprinting and the Neural Basis of Memory

         • Gabriel Horn

         Pages 13-19

      2. Morphological Correlates of Imprinting

         • P. M. Bradley, G. Horn, B. J. McCabe

         Pages 21-27

      3. Noradrenaline and its Possible Role in Imprinting

         • D. C. Davies, G. Horn, B. J. McCabe

         Pages 29-38

      4. The Cell Biological Consequences of Passive Avoidance Training in the Chick

         • Steven P. R. Rose

         Pages 39-50

      5. Influence of Developmental Factors on Imprinting

         • Hans-Joachim Bischof

         Pages 51-59

      6. Extraretinal Factors Controlling the Development of Neuronal Selectivity

         • Michel Imbert

         Pages 61-69

      7. Changes in the Avian Visual Wulst Following Early Monocular Deprivation

         • Paola Bagnoli, Giovanni Casini, Roberto Alesci

         Pages 71-78

   2. Noradrenergic modulation of learning and brain plasticity

      1. Are Beta Adrenoreceptors Involved in Visuocortical Plasticity?

         • T. Kasamatsu, T. Shirokawa

         Pages 79-84

      2. Role of the Locus Coeruleus System in Behavioral Plasticity

         • Lydia Velley, Eliane Kempf, Jeanne Velly, Bernard Cardo

         Pages 85-96

4. Adaptive Plasticity: The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory in Adult Organisms

   1. Biochemical and morphological alterations

      1. Role of Serotonin and cAMP on Short-Term Plastic Changes Underlying Simple Forms of Learning Process

         • M. Brunelli, G. Demontis, G. Traina

         Pages 97-106

      2. Protein Kinase C and Substrate Protein F1 (47 kD, 4.5 pI): Relation to Synaptic Plasticity and Growth

         • Aryeh Routtenberg

         Pages 107-117

      3. Turnover of Cerebral DNA in Learning and Sleep

         • Antonio Giuditta, Carla Perrone Capano, Maria Vittoria Ambrosini

         Pages 119-126

      4. Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Distribution and Two-Way Avoidance Learning in Rats and Mice

         • H. Schwegler, B. Heimrich, W. E. Crusio, H. P. Lipp

         Pages 127-138

   2. Short-term and long-term potentiation

      1. What can the Long-Term Potentiation Procedure Tell us about the Neural Mechanisms of Learning and Memory?

         • Serge Laroche

         Pages 139-155

      2. What does the “LTP Model of Memory” Model?

         • György Buzsáki

         Pages 157-166

   3. Selective activation of cerebral structures

      1. The Cholinergic Septo-Hippocampal Pathway, Learning and Memory

         • Robert Jaffard, Daniel Galey, Jacques Micheau, Thomas Durkin

         Pages 167-181

      2. Sequential Intervention of Different Limbic Structures in Memory Processes

         • Claude Destrade, Monique Gauthier, Jamila Sif

         Pages 183-192

      3. Post-Learning Paradoxical Sleep: A Critical Period When New Memory is Reactivated ?

         • Elizabeth Hennevin, Bernard Hars

         Pages 193-203

This book is the result of the contributions presented at a conference held from August 30 to September 1, 1984 at the Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. This meeting was organized under the joint auspices of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS) and the Societe Fran~aise pour 1 'Etude du Comportement Animal (SFECA). The objective of this meeting was to bring together an international group of participants to evaluate and to report on recent research in three broad and overlapping fields within the general theme of the relationships between brain plasticity and learning and memory. These three fields are "developmental plasticity" "adaptive plasticity" and "restorative plas tici ty." Al though the boundaries between these fie Ids are a rna t ter of debate (see Introduction), they have been retained as the major sections of this volume, the arrangement of which roughly parallels that of the meeting. We believe and very much hope that the contents of this volume convey an internal consistency despite the diversity of the material presented.

• behavior
• biology
• brain
• cortex
• development
• fields
• growth
• learning
• neurobiology
• plasticity
• primates
• receptor
• society

• Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France

  B. E. Will, J. C. Dalrymple-Alford

• Center for Neurochemistry, CNRS, Strasbourg, France

  P. Schmitt

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