Synaptic Plasticity

1. Glutamate Receptors in Synaptic Assembly and Plasticity: Case Studies on Fly NMJs
Ulrich Thomas, Stephan J. Sigrist

2. Scaffold Proteins at the Postsynaptic Density
Chiara Verpelli, Michael J. Schmeisser, Carlo Sala, Tobias M. Boeckers

3. Diversity of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor–Interacting Proteins and Pathophysiological Functions
Laurent Fagni

4. Regulation of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Dendritic Spines
Peter Penzes, Igor Rafalovich

5. Synaptic Cell Adhesion Molecules
Olena Bukalo, Alexander Dityatev

6. Molecular Dynamics of the Excitatory Synapse
Shigeo Okabe

7. The Brain’s Extracellular Matrix and Its Role in Synaptic Plasticity
Renato Frischknecht, Eckart D. Gundelfinger

8. Molecular Motors in Cargo Trafficking and Synapse Assembly
Robert Berg, Casper C. Hoogenraad

9. Surface Traffic in Synaptic Membranes
Martin Heine

10. Synaptic Protein Degradation in Memory Reorganization
Bong-Kiun Kaang, Jun-Hyeok Choi

11. AMPA Receptor Assembly: Atomic Determinants and Built-In Modulators
Madhav Sukumaran, Andrew C. Penn, Ingo H. Greger

12. Developmental Plasticity of the Dendritic Compartment: Focus on the Cytoskeleton
Malgorzata Urbanska, Lukasz Swiech, Jacek Jaworski

13. Dendritic mRNA Targeting and Translation
Stefan Kindler, Hans-Jürgen Kreienkamp

14. Gliotransmission and the Tripartite Synapse
Mirko Santello, Corrado Calì, Paola Bezzi

15. Roles of Neuronal Activity-Induced Gene Products in Hebbian and Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity, Tagging, and Capture
Yasunori Hayashi, Ken-ichi Okamoto, Miquel Bosch, Kensuke Futai

16. Long-Distance Signaling from Synapse to Nucleus via Protein Messengers
Anna Karpova, Julia Bär, Michael R. Kreutz

17. Nuclear Calcium Signaling
C. Peter Bengtson, Hilmar Bading

18. Integrating Neurotransmission in Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons
Jean-Antoine Girault

19. Synaptic Dysfunction and Intellectual Disability
Pamela Valnegri, Carlo Sala, Maria Passafaro

20. Synaptic Pathology of Down Syndrome
Craig C. Garner, Daniel Z. Wetmore

21. The Synaptic Pathology of Drug Addiction
Michel C. Oever, Sabine Spijker, August B. Smit

22. Synaptic Dysfunction in Schizophrenia
Dong-Min Yin, Yong-Jun Chen, Anupama Sathyamurthy, Wen-Cheng Xiong, Lin Mei

23. Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Mental Retardation in the Fragile X Syndrome: From Gene Mutation/s to Spine Dysmorphogenesis
Silvia Rubeis, Esperanza Fernández, Andrea Buzzi, Daniele Marino, Claudia Bagni

24. Synaptic Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease
Barbara Picconi, Giovanni Piccoli, Paolo Calabresi

25. Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease
Elena Marcello, Roberta Epis, Claudia Saraceno, Monica Luca

26. Erratum to: Gliotransmission and the Tripartite Synapse
Mirko Santello, Corrado Calì, Paola Bezzi

Nyckelord: Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Neurology, Neurobiology