Product Description

To understand how the brain learns and remembers requires an integration of psychological concepts and behavioral methods with mechanisms of synaptic plasticity systems and neuroscience. This new full-colour textbook provides a synthesis of this interdisciplinary field, each chapter making the key concepts transparent and accessible.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #349060 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 380 pages

Review

'Congratulations on a great book, and one that was sorely needed. It's just what I wanted, and my students also love it. They range from cognitive psychology to molecular biology and biophysics, and the text is suitable for all. I think you've written a classic!' - Thomas Brown, Yale University, USA 

'Rudy has served up a winner with his new book, The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. He has hit the sweet spot for those of us looking for a text with appropriate depth in both the conceptual issues related to behavioral change and the neurobiological principles of synaptic plasticity. This book is accessible for newcomers to neuroscience, yet maintains the sophistication that is necessary to challenge more advanced neuroscience students. My students, from various academic backgrounds, love it.' - Richard Hyson, Florida State University, USA

About the Author
JERRY W. Rudy  Chair of the Psychology Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

Customer Reviews

A solid synopsis and thorough intro to current views on memory biology
Covering experiments, molecular biology and neuroanatomy this book gives a decent grounding in the current understanding of how we think memory works on a biological level.

You get into receptor subtypes, synaptic tagging, cofilin-f-actin/g-actin in the chapter on synaptic modification and LTP, just to give you a flavour of the detail you cover in this book.

The diagrams are clear, the text is easy to follow and it's very well structured in its presentation of the topics.

For me it was a worthwhile purchase on this particular subject. This is the nitty gritty molecules and wetware of memory.

A note, this doesn't illustrate memory "techniques" etc though the book may well come up on such searches. This is a biology book rather than a how to improve memory :).