Neural Plasticity
Vol. 11: Nos. 3-4, 2004
SPECIAL ISSUE
Clinical pharmacology of
memory
This special issue is aimed at providing an update to one
of the fastest-moving areas of the Neurosciences, that of the neurobiology of
memory processes. We have focused in this issue on cellular and biochemical
mechanisms beginning with a general historical perspective provided by Georges
Chapouthier. Ivan Izquierdo contributes a comprehensive update of recent
results of molecularly-specific pharmacological studies. A new look at the role
of dopaminergic and noradrenergic modulation in memory processing is proposed
by Carolyn Harley. Mineur and colleagues give a comprehensive overview of the
genetic approach to unraveling the neurobiology of memory processes including a
consideration of recently developed techniques to determine which particular
genes might be involved.
Continuing the genetic approach, Martine Ammassari focuses on the contribution of inbred strains of rodents to our understanding of genetically-linked cognitive styles and memory processes. Finally, Guarino and colleagues describe a technique to use electrophysiological measurements combined with behaviour to assess drug effects in freely moving rats. Together these papers give us a sampler of the latest developments in the field of neurobiology of memory and should be of interest to a wide range of neuroscientists.
Susan Sara & Georges Chapouthier
Paris, November 2004
contents
Editorial
Georges Chapouthier and Susan Sara
From
the Search for a Molecular Code of Memory to the Role of Neurotransmitters: A
Historical Perspective
Georges Chapouthier
Pharmacological
Findings on the Biochemical Bases of Memory Processes: A General View
I. Izquierdo, M. Cammarota, J.H. Medina and L.R.M. Bevilaqua
Norepinephrine and
Dopamine as Learning Signals
Carolyn W. Harley
Strains
of Rodents and the Pharmacology of Learning and Memory
M. Ammassari-Teule and C. Castellano
Genetic Dissection of Learning and Memory in Mice
Y.S. Mineur, W.E. Crusio and F. Sluyter
A
Chronic Implant to Record Electroretinogram, Visual Evoked Potentials and
Oscillatory Potentials in Awake, Freely Moving Rats for Pharmacological Studies
I.
Guarino, S. Loizzo, L. Lopez, A. Fadda and A. Loizzo
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