Advances in Behavioral Biology

Brain plasticity, learning and memory: Historical background and conceptual perspectives.- Developmental Plasticity: The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory during Ontogeny.- Alterations induced by early learning and early stimulation.- Imprinting and the neural basis of memory.- Morphological correlates of imprinting.- Noradrenaline and its possible role in imprinting.- The cell biological consequences of passive avoidance training in the chick.- Influence of developmental factors on imprinting.- Extraretinal factors controlling the development of neuronal selectivity.- Changes in the avian visual Wulst following early monocular deprivation.- Noradrenergic modulation of learning and brain plasticity.- Are Beta adrenoreceptors involved in visuocortical plasticity?.- Role of the locus coeruleus system in behavioral plasticity.- Adaptive Plasticity: The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory in Adult Organisms.- Biochemical and morphological alterations.- Role of serotonin and cAMP on short-term plastic changes underlying simple forms of learning process.- Protein kinase C and substrate protein Fl (47 kD, 4.5 pI): Relation to synaptic plasticity and dendritic spine growth.- Turnover of cerebral DNA in learning and sleep.- Hippocampal mossy fiber distribution and two-way avoidance learning in rats and mice.- Short-term and long-term potentiation.- What can the long-term potentiation procedure tell us about the neural mechanisms of learning and memory?.- What does the "LTP model of memory" model?.- Selective activation of cerebral structures.- The cholinergic septo-hippocampal pathway, learning and memory.- Sequential intervention of different limbic structures in memory processes.- Post-learning paradoxical sleep: A critical period when new memory is reactivated?.- Modularity of the prosencephalon: The vertical systemps.- Catecholaminergic modulation of learning and memory.- Selective attention, memory, and the locus coeruleus.- Noradrenaline and selective attention.- Modulation of spontaneous and sensory-evoked discharge of locus coeruleus neurons by behavioral state: Functional implications.- Mechanisms of action of noradrenaline in the brain.- Modulation of selective processes in learning by neocortical and limbic dopamine: Studies of behavioural strategies.- Neuroendocrine and peptidergic modulation of learning and memory.- Hormonal influences on memory: Interaction of central and peripheral systems.- Effects of central administration of corticosterone or adrenalectomy in mice on memory and evoked activity in the hippocampus.- Vasopressin, hippocampal excitability and paired-pulse potentiation.- Effects of lysine-vasopressin on spontaneous behavior and learning in appetitive tasks in the rat.- Oxytocin and vasopressin in memory and amnesia.- Cholecystokinin, learning and memory.- Possible involvement of neuroexcitatory amino acids and related peptides in learning and memory processes.- Restorative Plasticity: Brain Damage and Functional Recovery.- Early brain damage.- Functional deficits and anatomical sparing after prenatal brain damage in the rat.- Visual discrimination learning in rats following early life undernutrition: Recent findings and review.- Ontogeny of acquisition and retention of two-way active avoidance in the rat: Effects of early septal damage.- Dissociation of two behavioral functions in the monkey after early hippocampal ablations.- Brain damage in adult organisms.- Is the hippocampus really involved in memory?.- Neocortex, hippocampus and performance in Lashley's maze III.- Behavioral correlates of plasticity in substantia nigra efferents.- Learning and memory performance before and after unilateral selective amygdalohippocampectomy.- Reading via a new functional pathway in an acquired dyslexia.- Aging.- Memory processes and aging in rodents.- Anatomical and behavioral studies following lesions on the basal magnocellular nucleus in the rat.- Modulation of functional recovery.- Early undernutrition and recovery from acute brain damage later in life.- Behavioural effects of preoperative and postoperative differential housing in rats with brain lesions: A review.- Temporally spaced lesions and recovery of function.- Neuropeptides and functional recovery after brain damage.- Gangliosides, Neuroplasticity, and behavioral recovery after brain damage.- Effects of nerve growth factor on cholinergic neurons of the rat forebrain.- Reorganization and restoration of central nervous connections after injury: A lesion and transplant study of the rat hippocampus.- Compensation of lesion-induced changes in cerebral metabolism and behaviour by striatal neural implants in a rat model of Huntington's disease.- Functions of nucleus basalis magnocellularis input to the neocortex: A reconstitution analysis using intracerebral transplantation.- Appendix: Poster Abstracts.- Maternal corticoids during perinatal life influence hippocampus-dependent behavioral and endocrine responses in the adult rat.- Vertebrate memory models: Alterations in neuronal phosphoproteins.- Event-related potentials, learning and memory.- Mammillary body lesions in mice induce memory deficits which resemble those of the amnesic Korsakoff syndrome.- Non associative and associative learning in the Naples high (NHE) and low excitable (NLE) rat strains.- The spectrum of the monkey's saccadic reaction times.- Testosterone and imprinting.- The maturation of eye movement in the cat.- 3H-muscimol binding to membranes of chick forebrain: Changes during development and after passive avoidance training.- Habituation of responses recorded in the reticular fomation: The possible involvement of opiates.- Intrastriatal grafting of dopamine-containing cell suspensions: Effects of mixing with target and non-target cells.- The role of the corpus callosum in visuomotor running patterns.- Evoked potential correlates of classical and instrumental conditioning.- Cerebral systems involved in a classical conditioning in rats.- The influence of electroconvulsive shock on learning and retention of memory in rat.- An interdisciplinary study of the effects of 6-OHDA lesions of the septum on cholinergic septo-hippocampal activity in inbred mouse strains.- Morphological changes during visual development in monkey and man.- Involvement of the entorhinal cortex in memory processes: Differentiation of lateral and medial parts.- Memory reorganization over time as revealed by interaction between type of pre-test cueing and length of retention interval.- Pavlovian lever-directed activity in rats with microcephaly due to gamma irradiation.- CNS Plasticity after early cerebellar hemispherectomy in the rat.- Restorative plasticity in the behaviour of the mutant mouse staggerer.- Activity of rat hippocampal neurones related to performance of a recognition memory task.- Influence on memory by a new nootropic compound.- Brain lesions, imprinting, and operant learning.- Effects of post-natal sensory stimulation on sleep patterns and cognitive processes in preterm infants.- Memory for words and faces - A clinical study.- Ageing and cognitive performance in the natural environment.- Adaptation of oculomotor behaviour in reading: A study of some patients with visual field defects after brain damage.- Changes in hippocampal multiunit activity during conditioning: A neural correlate of the predictive value acquired by the CS?.- Paradoxical sleep augmentation following spatial strategy reversal in BALB/c mice.- Social constraints on learning in a group of baboons reared in an enclosure.- Comparison of dorsal and ventral hippocampus in BALB/c mice: Behavioral and anatomical studies.- A new brainstem transcommissural pathway: The bilateral pontocerebrellar system.- Influence of training strength on long-term retention of a conditioned saccharin aversion in rats.- Effects of early hyperthyroidism on shuttle box behavior and hippocampal mossy fiber distribution.- Correlation of pre- and postsynaptic activities: Its role in visual cortical plasticity.- Defeat-induced defense reactions and analgesia in mice: Effect of genotype.- Fetal brain tissue transplants promote behavioral recovery from bilateral lesions of the cerebral cortex in adult rats.- Morphological studies of plasticity in the chick forebrain following passive avoidance training.- Passive avoidance learning and memory-storage in decerebrate rats.- Lister and Wistar rats differ in the extent to which early life undernutrition affects later spatial discrimination learning.- Visual neglect in primates due to frontal eye field damage: Eye and head movement strategies during recovery.- The effects of early vs late cerebral lesions on learning and memory in children.- Possible memory enhancing effects of beta-carbolines.