Main description:

Serves as a comprehensive introduction and overview of synaptic tagging and capture (STC) and covers the topic from molecular and cellular aspects to behavior. Circa 15 years ago the STC model was proposed to provide a conceptual basis for how short-term memories are transformed into long-term memories. Though the hypothesis remains unconfirmed due to technological limitations, the model is well consolidated and generally accepted in the field. Various researchers have investigated the cellular mechanisms for the formation of long-term memory using the STC model, but this is the first book-length treatments of STC. This volume features an introduction by Prof. Richard Morris and Prof. Cliff Abraham.

Contents:

Part 1: Cellular and molecular aspects of synaptic tagging and capture

Chapter 1: Differential role of CaMK in synaptic tagging and capture
Roger L Redondo, Richard GM Morris

Chapter 2: Compartmentalization of Synaptic Tagging and Capture
Juan Marcos Alarcon

Chapter 3: Synaptic cooperation and competition: two sides of the same coin?
Rosalina Fonseca

Chapter 4: Neuropsin-dependent and -independent synaptic tagging and modulation of long-term potentiation: a quest for the associated signaling pathway(s)
Yasuyuki Ishikawa, Sadao Shiosaka

Chapter 5: PKA Anchoring and Synaptic Tagging and Capture
Ted Abel, Alan Jung Park

Chapter 6: Activity-dependent protein transport as a synaptic tag
Daisuke Okada, Kaoru Inokuchi

Chapter 7: mTOR and the Regulation of Translational Capacity in Late Forms of Synaptic Plasticity
Panayiotis Tsokas, Robert D. Blitzer

Chapter 8: Dopaminergic Neuromodulation in Synaptic tagging and Capture
Sheeja Navakkode

Chapter 9: From where? Synaptic Tagging Allows the Nucleus Not to Care
Shannon Farris, Serena M. Dudek

Part 2: Behavioral and Metaplastic aspects of synaptic tagging and capture

Chapter 10: BDNF and TrkB mediated signalling supports processes of metaplasticity and long-term memory formation
Martin Korte

Chapter 11: Prescient Synapses: Gating Future Neuronal Consciousness Through Synaptic Tagging and Metaplasticity
Steven A. Connor, Peter V. Nguyen

Chapter 12: Metaplasticity of Synaptic tagging and Capture: Memory beyond the circle
Mahima Sharma, Sreedharan Sajikumar

Chapter 13: Emotional tagging and long-term memory formation
Gal Richter-Levin, Orli Kehat, Rachel Anunu

Chapter 14: The Behavioral Tagging hypothesis and its implications for long-term memory formation
Diego Moncada, Fabrico Ballarini, Maria Cecilia Martinez, Haydee Viola