Memory Makes The Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains

Christian Hansel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2021
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-12-2880-3 (ISBN)

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The development of the young brain after birth and the emergence of cognitive capacities, mind, and individuality rest on the maturation of a dense net of synaptic connections between neurons. Memory Makes the Brain describes the dramatic, competitive elimination of surplus synapses that occur in the young, maturing brain — in a process called synaptic pruning that was discovered by pediatric neurologist Peter Huttenlocher in the 1970's at the University of Chicago. Explaining similarities between developmental pruning and learning processes in the adult brain, neurobiologist Christian Hansel offers a unique perspective on brain adaptation and plasticity throughout lifetime, at times weaving in personal accounts and memories. The cellular plasticity machinery that enables learning is known to be affected in brain developmental disorders such as autism. Memory Makes the Brain explains how both maturation and adult synaptic plasticity are deregulated in autism, and how we begin to trace back autism-typical behavioral abnormalities to such synaptopathies.

Introduction; Peter Huttenlocher and the Discovery of Synaptic Pruning ; What Goes Up Must Come Down: Synaptic Potentiation and Depression; Across Time: A Shared Synaptic Machinery in The Developing and the Adult Brain; Synaptopathies: Synaptic Dysfunction in Autism; The Study of Autism-Resembling Behaviors in Mouse Models; The Memory Engram; Limitations: The Non-Synaptic Plasticity Component; Ensemble Sequences, Associative Plasticity and the Learning of Causal Relationships; Plasticity and the Shaping of Individual Brains;

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2021
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
ISBN-10	981-12-2880-9 / 9811228809
ISBN-13	978-981-12-2880-3 / 9789811228803
Zustand	Neuware