Part I: Biochemical and Genetic Strategies for Probing Synaptic Plasticity and Behavior
1. Conditional Gene Targeting: A Refined Method for Genetic Studies in Neurosciences
Jane Beil, Isabelle M. Mansuy, and Thorsten Buch
2. Sindbis Virus-Mediated In Vivo Expression of Recombinant CREB to Study Gene Function in Neuronal Plasticity and Behavior
Hélène Marie
3. Exploring Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity Using Exogenous Expression of Proteins at the Sensory-to-Motor Neuron Synapse of Aplysia
Daniel B. Weatherill, Tyler W. Dunn, Patrick K. McCamphill, and Wayne S. Sossin
4. Translational Regulation of Synaptic Plasticity
Emanuela Santini, Eric Klann, and Charles Hoeffer
Part II: Synaptic Development and Neurogenesis
5. Glutamate Receptors and Synaptic Physiology in Developing Neural Circuits
Declan W. Ali, Marcus E. Cunningham, and Birbickram Roy
6. Laminar Quantification of Dendrites in Dentate Gyrus Granule Neurons
Shira Rosenzweig and J. Martin Wojtowicz
Part III: Electrophysiological and Optical Interrogation of Synaptic Physiology in Brain Slices and Dissociated Cell Preparations
7. Electrophysiological and Biochemical Studies of AMPA Receptor Phosphorylation and Synaptic Plasticity in Hippocampal CA1 Mini-Slices
Erin E. Gray and Thomas J. O'Dell
8. Electrophysiological and Behavioral Approaches to the Analysis of Synaptic Tagging and Capture
Roger Redondo and Richard G.M. Morris
9. Intracellular Loading and Rapid Calcium Imaging in Processes of Hippocampal Astrocytes
Aude Panatier and Richard Robitaille
10. Electrophysiological Methods for Investigating Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity
Melanie A. Woodin
11. Converging Methodologies in a Mammalian 'Simple System' Focused on the Biology of Memory: Conditioned Odor Preference in the Neonate Rat
Qi Yuan, Carolyn W. Harley, and John H. McLean
12. The Sagittally-Sectioned Rat Hindbrain Preparation: Improved Access to the Brainstem Respiratory Network
Nicholas M. Mellen and Gregory D. Funk
