Engrams: A Window into the Memory Trace
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Johannes Gräff and Steve Ramirez have gathered some of the leading experts in the field who have generously contributed with a chapter of what has become the first ever book on engram biology!
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“Engrams: A Window into the Memory Trace" is broad in scope and spansmolecular, cellular, circuit, computational as well as societal-philosophical aspectsof memory engrams. Particular emphasis is placed on their emerging translational value for memory dysfunctions in age and stress-related disorders.
This is the first book to extensively explore the current state-of-the-art and promise of engram cells, the closest physical approximation of the memory trace to date. Converging evidence suggests that memories are stored, at least in part, as specific populations of engram cells. In this book, the leading experts in engram biology share their continuously refined insights on how engram cells contribute to information encoding and storage, across diverse brain regions and behavioral modalities.
This book is part of the Advances in Neurobiology book series, which covers basic research in neurobiology and neurochemistry. It provides in-depth, book-length treatment of some of the most important topics in neuroscience including molecular and pharmacological aspects. The main audiences of the series are basic science researchers and graduate students as well as clinicians including neuroscientists (neurobiologists and neurochemists) and neurologists. Advances in Neurobiology is indexed in PubMed, Google Scholar, and the Thompson Reuters Book Citation Index.
Editors and Affiliations:
School of Life Sciences, EPFL, Brain Mind Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland
Johannes Gräff
Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, USA
Steve Ramirez
About the editors
Johannes Gräff, PhD, is Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Neuroepigenetics at the Brain Mind Institute of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Trained as a biologist at the University of Lausanne, Johannes Gräff obtained his PhD in Neuroscience at ETH Zurich before pursuing his postdoctoral studies at the Picower Institute of Learning and Memory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA. His laboratory studies the molecular underpinnings of memory formation, storage and change, with a particular emphasis on epigenetic mechanisms.
Steve Ramirez is an Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University and a former Junior Fellow of Harvard University. He received his B.A. in neuroscience from Boston University and went on to receive his Ph.D. in neuroscience at MIT. His lab focuses on imaging and manipulating memories throughout the mammalian brain, with a particular emphasis on artificially modulating memories to alleviate symptoms associated with pathologies of the brain.