Memory and Transfer of Information: Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the MERCK’SCHE GESELLSCHAFT für KUNST und WISSENSCHAFT held at Göttingen, May 24–26, 1972

The contents of this book are the presentations of a Symposium on "Memory and Transfer of Information", held at Gottingen, May 24-26, 1972 . One of the main reasons for organizing this Symposium was to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion between sci- entists working in the field as a whole. Most of the pre- vious meetings dealing with memory and transfer of infor- mation have tended to be rather limited in scope. The pres- ent Symposium covered a wide range of topics, including neurophysiological, neuropharmacological, neurochemical, behavioral and clinical aspects of learning and chemical transfer of information, presented by specialists in these areas. The Proceedings of the meeting present a large number of previously unpublished results, e.g., recent experiments in neurophysiology and neurochemistry, new approaches to chemical transfer of learned information, experiments using synthetic scotophobin and drugs influencing learning and behavior. The importance of interdisciplinary discussion is perhaps most clearly emphasized by the advances in neuro- chemical micromethods which are of particular interest to scientists working on the chemical transfer of information. Only such interdisciplinary collaboration between highly specialized scientists guarantees further progress and deeper insight into the complex, and until now little under- stood, mechanisms of that most intricate of organs, the brain. Hans Peter ZIPPEL vii CONTRIBUTORS BRADLEY, P.B. Department of Pharmacology, Medical School, Birmingham B1S 2TJ, England BYRNE, W. L. '; Department of Biochemistry. University of Tennessee. College of Basic Medical Sciences. Memphis. Tennessee 38103. U.S.A. CREUTZFELDT, O.D.

Table of Contents:
Neurophysiology, Neuropharmacology and Behavior.- Neural Control of Input into Long Term Memory: Limbic System and Amnestic Syndrome in Man.- A Study of Memory in Aged People.- The Transfer of Information between Sense-Modalities: A Neurophysiological Review.- The Significance of Exogenous and Endogenous Factors in the Hereditary Differences in Learning Ability of Rats.- The Reactivity of Wistar Rats Highly Selected for Good and Bad Learning, Observed in Various Physiological and Pharmacological Test Models.- Statistical EEG Analysis in Strains of Rats with Genetically Determined Different Learning Performance.- Some Views on the Neurophysiological and Neurophar-macological Mechanisms of Storage and Retrieval of Information.- Mode of Action of Some Drugs which Affect Learning and Memory.- Compensatory Mechanisms Following Labyrinthine Lesion in the Guinea-Pig. A Simple Model of Learning.- Action of Various Drugs on the Formation and Fixation of Long Term Information in the Goldfish (Carassius auratus).- Communication between Nerves and Muscles: Postnatal Development in Kitten Hindlimb Fast and Slow Twitch Muscle.- Some Neurophysiological Considerations Concerning “Memory”.- Transfer of Acquired Information.- The Structure of the “Memory-Code-Word” Scotophobin.- Evidence for Molecular Coding of Neural Information.- Recent Experiments in Memory Transfer.- The Effect of Synthetic Scotophobin on the Light Tolerance of Teleosts (Carassius auratus and Tinca tinca).- Peptides and Behavior.- Studies with Dark Avoidance and Scotophobin.- New Experimental Approaches to the Inter-Animal Transfer of Acquired Information.- Chemical Transfer of Learned Information in Mammals and Fish.- Chemical Transfer of a Dummy Reaction, Released in Young Mouthbreeding Fish (Ti1apianilotica) during the “Critical Period”, from Imprinted Donors into Unimprinted Recipients after the “Critical Period”.- Neurochemistry.- Neurochemical Micromethods.- Neuronal Plasticity, Protein Conformation and Behavior.- Phosphorylation of Non-Histone Acid-Extractable Nuclear Proteins (NAEP) from Brain.- Biochemical Regulation of Synaptic Connectivity.- Radioactive Studies of Changes in Protein Metabolism by Adequate and Inadequate Stimulation in the Optic Tectum of Teleosts.- Encephalotropic Drugs and Cerebral RNA Metabolism.