Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus

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Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Long-Term Potentiation of Feed-Forward Inhibition in Hippocampus: Extracellular Evidence....Pages 3-5
Frequency Potentiation and Habituation in Hippocampal Area CA1....Pages 6-8
Changes in Synaptic Transmission Evoked in the “In Vitro” Hippocampal Slice by a Brief Decrease of [Mg++]0: A Correlate for Long-Term Potentiation?....Pages 9-12
Postsynaptic Mechanisms in the Potentiation of Synaptic Responses....Pages 13-16
Postsynaptic Mechanisms May Regulate Synaptic Strength by Controlling Synapse Lifetimes....Pages 17-20
Long-Term Potentiation of Inhibitory Responses in the Dentate Gyrus....Pages 21-23
Quantal Analysis of Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus....Pages 24-26
Quantal Analysis of Long-Term Potentiation....Pages 27-30
Plasticity-Related Synaptic Mechanisms in Hippocampus....Pages 31-34
NMDA Receptor Control of Spontaneous Complex Spike Discharge in Hippocampal Pyramidal Cells....Pages 35-37
Mecamylamine Blocks Responses to NMDA and a Component of Synaptic Transmission in Rat Hippocampal Slices....Pages 38-41
Long-Term Potentiation in the Recurrent Inhibitory Circuit of the Dentate Gyrus....Pages 42-44
NMDA Receptors May Be Involved in Generation of Hippocampal Theta Rhythm....Pages 45-45
Cytoplasmic Ca2+ Changes in Reference to Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampal Slice....Pages 46-48
Electron Histochemical Localization of Calcium in CA1 of Hippocampal Slices Following High Frequency Stimulation: Effects of Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists....Pages 49-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Involvement of Serotonin in Hippocampal Plasticity....Pages 55-56
Norepinephrine Enhances Long-Term Potentiation at Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapses....Pages 57-60
Potentiation of Synaptic Transmission by Phorbol Esters is Accompanied by a Reduction of Physiological Adenosine Action....Pages 61-64
An APV-Resistant Non-associative Form of Long-Term Potentiation in the Rat Hippocampus....Pages 65-66
GABA Transmission in the Hippocampus: Postsynaptic Regulation....Pages 67-69
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Glycine Allosterically Regulates an NMDA Receptor Coupled Ion Channel in Rat Hippocampal Membranes....Pages 70-72
MK-801 Prevents the Induction of Long-Term Potentiation....Pages 73-76
Long-Term Potentiation in Slices from Human Hippocampus....Pages 77-80
Decrease of GABA During Long-Term Potentiation in the CA1 Region of Rat Hippocampal Slices: Immunohistochemical and Biochemical Analysis....Pages 81-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Synaptic Organization of Identified Neurons in the Hippocampus....Pages 87-89
Hippocampal Sharp Waves: A Physiological Correlate of LTP?....Pages 90-92
Characteristics of Associative Potentiation/Depression....Pages 93-95
Primed Burst Potentiation: Lasting Synaptic Plasticity Invoked by Physiologically Patterned Stimulation....Pages 96-98
Collective Behaviors of the Hippocampal Slice — Epileptic and Nonepileptic....Pages 99-101
Are Nerve Growth Factors Involved in Long-Term Synaptic Potentiation in the Hippocampus and Spatial Memory?....Pages 102-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Intracellular Injection of Protein Kinase C Causes Changes Similar to Long-Term Potentiation....Pages 109-109
On the Mechanism of Increased Transmitter Release in LTP: Measurements of Calcium Concentration and Phosphatidylinositol Turnover in CA3 Synaptosomes....Pages 110-113
Effects of Phorbol Esters on Membrane Currents and Synaptic Efficacy in the Hippocampus....Pages 114-115
Gangliosides and Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus....Pages 116-118
Long-Term Synaptic Potentiation and Macromolecular Changes in Memory Formation....Pages 119-121
Inhibitors of Protein Synthesis, but not mRNA Synthesis, Promote Decay of Long-Term Potentiation in Rat Dentate Gyrus....Pages 122-125
A Multi-Phase Model of Synaptic Long-Term Potentiation in Hippocampal CA1 Neurones: Protein Kinase C Activation and Protein Synthesis Are Required for the Maintenance of the Trace....Pages 126-129
Modulation of Spike Repolarization in Hippocampal Neurones by Tumor-Promoting Phorbol Esters....Pages 130-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Long-Term Potentiation in Relation to Kindling of the Rat Hippocampus....Pages 135-136
The Role of M1 and M2 Receptors in Slow Muscarinic Excitation of Hippocampal Neurons....Pages 137-139
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Changes in Synaptic Function that Underly Epileptiform Activity in Hippocampal Pyramidal Cells....Pages 140-143
Calcium and Long-Term Potentiation in the Rat Hippocampus In Vitro....Pages 144-145
Memory-Affecting Drugs and Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity....Pages 146-149
Optical Monitoring of Electrical Activity in Hippocampal Slices Using a Voltage Sensitive Dye (RH155)....Pages 150-154
Arecoline Induces Theta Rhythm, Reduces Pyramidal Cell Excitability and Moderately Impairs LTP In Vivo....Pages 155-158
Topology Related Real-Time Monitoring of Neural Activity in Hippocampal Brain Slices by Noninvasive Optical Recording — A Step Towards Functional Aspects of Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)....Pages 159-162
Neural Transplants in the Kainic Acid Lesioned Hippocampus: An Investigation of Long-Term Behavioral Effects....Pages 163-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Calcium Binding Proteins and Experimental Models of Epilepsy....Pages 169-172
Long-Term Modifications of Hippocampal Function Following Chronic Experimental Epilepsy....Pages 173-175
Activation of NMDA Receptors in the Dentate Gyrus Following Kindling-Induced Epilepsy....Pages 176-179
Regenerative, AlI-or-None, Electrographic Seizures in the Rat Hippocampal Slice in Physiological Magnesium Medium....Pages 180-183
Altered Noradrenergic Modulation of Dentate Granule Cell Firing and N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptors After Kindlung....Pages 184-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
The Hippocampus and Classical Conditioning....Pages 189-189
Long-Term Potentiation: Its Effect on Classically Conditioned Behavior and Hippocampal Network Properties....Pages 190-193
Neurones of the Medical Temporal Lobes and Recognition Memory....Pages 194-197
Hippocampal Involvement in Rabbit Eyeblink Conditioning....Pages 198-201
Human Hippocampal Neuronal Firing to Specific Individual Words and Faces....Pages 202-204
The Induction of Long-Term Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus Is Modulated by Behavioral State....Pages 205-207
Parallel Studies on Learning and LTP in the Dentate Gyrus....Pages 208-211
Back Matter....Pages 213-215