Preface

Introduction: The cortico-limbic system of higher vertebrates

A. Neugebauer (Napoli, Italy)

OPENING LECTURE

Hippocampal cellular correlates to spatial learning

P. Andersen (Oslo, Norway)

BRAIN REVERBERATING SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATIVE PHENOMENA

Konorski's concept of brain associations

K. Zielinski (Warsaw, Poland)

Pairing, contiguity, contingency -- what's the difference

K. Zielinski (Warsaw, Poland)

Neuronal networks in the hippocampal region. I. Reverberating circuits

T. Gessi

R. Bartesaghi (Bologna, Italy)

Neuronal networks in the hippocampal region. II. Impulse transmission patterns

T. Gessi

R. Bartesaghi

M. Migliore (Bologna, Italy)

Where in the cortex does cognition take place?

P. Calabrese

H. J. Markowitsch

E. Tulving (Bochum and Bielefield, Germany and North York, Canada

Does a hierarchical timing mechanism exist in the olfactory system?

T. Radil

R. Jirsa

C.J. Wysocki (Praha, Czech Republic and Philadelphia, PN, USA)

Reactivity of mice to spatial and non spatial change: Effect of haloperidol and MK-801 treatments

P. Roullet

A. Mele

M. Ammassari-Teule (Tours, France and Roma, Italy)

LONG TERM POTENTIATION -- LEARNING AND MEMORY

Long-term potentiation: A synaptic model for learning and memory

K.P.S.J. Murphy

M.L. Errington

T.V.P. Bliss (London, United Kingdom)

Spatial and temporal changes in signal transduction pathways during long-term potentiation

K.L. Thomas

S.P. Hunt (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Nitric oxide, synaptic plasticity and memory formation in the brain

G.A. Bohme (Vitry sur Seine, France)

The involvement of the medial thalamus in memory

M. Bentivoglio (Verona, Italy)

Memory disorders after diencephalic brain damage

H.J. Markowitsch

P. Calabrese (Bielfield and Bochum, Germany)

On the role of the gabaergic system of the basolateral amygdala in conditioned odor aversion

B. Ferry

G. Di Scala (Strasbourg, France)

Participation of post-synaptic structures in simple forms of synaptic plasticity in snail central neurones

P. V. Gusev (Moscow, Russia)

Long-term memory of active avoidance learning in Wistar rats

G. Mariucci

C. Colarieti

C. Gambelunghe

M. V. Ambrosini (Perugia, Italy)

Neuropsychological studies of memory functions in brain damaged patients

H.J. Markowitsch

P. Calabrese (Bielfield and Bochum, Germany)

(R, S)-Alpha-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine (MCPG) fails to block long term potentiation under urethane anesthesia in vivo

S.J. Martin

R.G.M. Morris (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Nitric oxide synthase activity and free radical generation in rat brain: Effect of age and individual behaviour

M. Yu. Stepanichev

M.V. Onufriev

N.A. Lazareva

M.V. Gulyaeva (Moscow, Russia)

GENE ACTIVITY AND BRAIN ACTIVITY

The role of immediate early genes in long-term potentiation, learning and memory

K.L. Thomas

S.P. Hunt (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Biochemical correlates of learning and memory

R. Mileusnic (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)

Towards understanding a role of transcription factors in learning processes

L. Kaczmarek (Warsaw, Poland)

L-glutamate-driven gene expression in neuronal plasticity and cell death

L. Kaczmarek

I. Figiel (Warsaw, Poland)

The involvement of protein kinase C in hippocampal-dependent learning

R. Paylor

B.J. Bowers

J.M. Wehner (Boulder, CO, USA)

Basic fibroblast growth factor in rat hippocampal neurons

V. Maharajan

M. Di Benedetto

P. Maharajan

G. Caputo (Arco Felice and Napoli, Italy)

GENE EXPRESSION AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DURING SLEEP

Memory processing during sleep: The sequential hypothesis

A. Giuditta

P. Mandile

S. Vescia (Napoli, Italy)

Sleep-wake variables and EEG power spectra in aging rats

G. Bruschelli

M.V. Ambrosini

G. Mariucci

C. Gambelunghe (Perugia, Italy)

The expression of immediate early genes in the brain during sleep and wake

M. Bentivoglio

G. Grassi-Zucconi (Verona and Perugia, Italy)

Thalamic control of EEG oscillations during waking, NREM and REM sleep

G. Marini (Milano, Italy)

Paradoxical sleep as an iterative genetic programming mechanism

M. Jouvet (Lyon, France)

Chromatic dreams / white-and-black dreams: Is it possible to attempt any interpretative hypothesis?

C. Pizzuti (Napoli, Italy)

CLOSING LECTURE

Four levels of brain research -- an introduction

H. Stieve (Aachen, Germany)

ABSTRACTS

Deficient long-term memory in mice with a targeted mutation of the cAMP-responsive element-binding protein

R. Bourtchouladze

B. Frenguelli

A.J. Silva (New York, USA)

Genetic test of the effects of PKA knockout on mossy fiber LTP and spatial and contextual learning

R. Bourtchouladze

Y.-Y. Huang

L. Varshavsky

E.R. Kandel

E.P. Brandon

M. Qi

R.L. Idzerda

G.S. McKnight (New York and Seattle, USA)

The power and the limits of neurogenetics

Y. Dudai (Rehovot, Israel)

The relevance of in vivo and in vitro neurobiological observations to learning and memory

Y. Dudai (Rehovot, Israel)

PARTICIPANTS

List of participants