Refining the taxonomy of memory

Article Abstract:

Studies on amesia patients and Parkinson's disease patients have identified two separate memory systems in the human brain. Loss of dopamine from the striatum impaired Parkinson pateints' skill-learning ability, while people with damaged limbic-diencephaic regions suffered loss of declarative memory.

Brain, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson disease, Localization (Brain function), Dopa, L-dopa, Corpus striatum

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Plasticity of a different feather?

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Research indicates that songbirds have a decreased neuronal response to a song repeatedly heard. The progressive decrease of the response recovers only at six narrow windows of time. The location of the neuronal plasticity is the caudomedial neostriatum of the songbird's brain.

Birds, Birdsongs, Neuroplasticity

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Neuroscience: learning mechanisms: the case for CaM-KII

Article Abstract:

CaM-KII research by A. Barria, et. al., indicates its prominent role in controlling synaptic strength and information storage. Postsynaptic transmission during long-term potentiation is analyzed.

Psychobiology

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