Handbook of in Vivo Neural Plasticity Techniques: A Systems Neuroscience Approach to the Neural Basis of Memory and Cognition

Handbook of in Vivo Neural Plasticity Techniques, Volume 28: A Systems Neuroscience Approach to the Neural Basis of Memory and Cognition gives a comprehensive overview of the current methods and approaches that are used to study neural plasticity from a systems neuroscience perspective. In addition, the book offers in-depth methodological advice that provides the necessary foundation for researchers establishing methods and students who need to understand the theoretical and methodological bases of these approaches. This is the ideal resource for anyone new to the study of cognitive and behavioral neuroscience who seeks an introduction to state-of-the-art techniques.

Offers a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art approaches to studying neuroplasticity in vivoCombines discussions of theoretical underpinnings with the methodological and technical aspects necessary to guarantee successArranged in a uniform format that clearly and concisely lays out descriptions, methods and the pitfalls of various techniques

1. Recording hippocampal field potentials and synaptic plasticity from freely behaving rats 2. Sleep electrophysiology in rodents 3. The special case of field potential recordings and examining synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus of freely behaving mice 4. Electrophysiology along the ventral hippocampal axis 5. Single unit recordings: place cells 6. Visually guided single-cell recordings in the hippocampus of awake mice 7. Decoding neural codes in in vivo (animal) preparations 8. Extracellular recordings in subcortical limbic structures in vivo 9. In vivo electrophysiological approaches for studying head direction cells 10. Barrel cortex 11. Neurophysiology Techniques in the Avian brain: Single Units and Field Recordings 12. Optical imaging with voltage sensors ─ capturing TMS-induced neuronal signals using light 13. Long-term two-photon calcium imaging in the visual cortex of awake mice 14. Long-term in vivo imaging of structural plasticity in rodents 15. A guide to optogenetic applications, with special focus on behavioral and in vivo electrophysiological experiments 16. Optogenetic approaches for controlling neuronal activity and plasticity 17. Auditory cortex 18. Bridging cellular and systems memory consolidation: the role of noradrenergic modulation 19. Using molecular biology to address locus coeruleus modulation of hippocampal plasticity and learning: Progress and pitfalls 20. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation – A Non-Invasive Way to Induce Neural Plasticity in Vivo and in Vitro 21. Repetitive sensory stimulation – A canonical approach to control the induction of human learning at a behavioural and neural Level 22. Plastic network changes during brain disease: a MR imaging approach in rodents 23. A combined fMRI and electrophysiological approach to study signal processing and signal propagation in the rodent hippocampus 24. Functional MRI of synaptic plasticity 25. MRI: an ideal translational tool to explore the neural substrate of vocal communication in songbirds 26. Tracking human engrams using multivariate analysis techniques 27. Neural codes in human 28. Invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces and Neural Recordings from Humans