Chapter 12Links-Learning and Memory:

Transient Global Amnesia: http://www.healthpartners.com/group/neuro/tga.html

and treatment of transient global amnesia.

The Memory Exhibition: http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/index.html This site at the Exploratorium provides a link to a dissection of the human and the sheep brain. Viewing a video of this exercise requires the prior installation of the software program RealPlayer.

What memory is for: ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/bbs.glenberg.html This article by Dr. A. Glenberg provides a discussion of the function of human memory.

Long-term potentiation: ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/bbs.shors.html This site provides a detailed article on the physiology and pharmacology of long-term potentiation and its utility as a model for learning and memory.

The Hippocampus and Navigation Group Homepage: http://rana.usc.edu:8376/~aguazzel/wg/hip_nav.html A homepage of a research team interested in the role of the hippocampus in navigation.

The Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia:

This site provides information on dementia, an on-line educational preview of diagnostic tools for dementia, links to brain imaging on dementia, and resource sites on dementia.

Alzheimer: http://www.socialnet.lu/handitel/wwwlinks/alzheimer.html

A resource web page with links to associations, research centers, home

pages, and other links related to Alzheimer’s disease

Self-Help: Memory Related Sites: http://www.selfgrowth.com/memory.html A reference site for links to sites that promise to improve one’s memory.

W.H. Calvin’s Notes on Human Memory Mechanisms: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~wcalvin/memory.html This site provides a tutorial on human memory and contrasts human memory vs. computer memory.

Information-Processing Approach: http://www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/~whuitt/psy702/cogsys/infoproc.html This web-site provides a tutorial on human memory including a stage model of memory.

Memory Under Stress: http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/ptsd/RQ_Spring_1996.html A site that outlines a novel theory of memory that links the amygdala and emotional processing to the activity of the hippocampus. The site serves as a form of a tutorial in critical studies of the neuroanatomy of memory and provides an updated annotated bibliography.