- Title Pages
- Foreword to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Third Edition
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Dendrite structure
- Chapter 2 Evolution and scaling of dendrites
- Chapter 3 Dendrite development
- Chapter 4 Molecular determinants of dendrite and spine development
- Chapter 5 Local translation in dendrites
- Chapter 6 Structure and molecular organization of the postsynaptic density
- Chapter 7 Subcellular distribution of ligand- and voltage-gated ion channels
- Chapter 8 Neurotransmitter-gated ion channels in dendrites
- Chapter 9 Dendritic voltage-gated ion channels
- Chapter 10 Biochemical compartmentalization in dendrites
- Chapter 11 Spine calcium signaling
- Chapter 12 Principles of dendritic integration
- Chapter 13 Dendritic integration in vivo
- Chapter 14 Modeling dendrites: a personal perspective
- Chapter 15 A theoretical view of the neuron as an input–output computing device
- Chapter 16 Toward a simplified model of an active dendritic tree
- Chapter 17 Modeling dendrite shape
- Chapter 18 Functional plasticity at dendritic synapses
- Chapter 19 Structural plasticity in dendrites and spines
- Chapter 20 Molecular signaling during plasticity of dendritic spines
- Chapter 21 Dendrites as transmitters
- Chapter 22 Dendritic connectomics
- Chapter 23 Linking dendritic processing to computation and behavior in invertebrates
- Chapter 24 Dendrites and disease
- Chapter 25 The future of dendrite research
- Index
Structural plasticity in dendrites and spines
Structural plasticity in dendrites and spines
- Chapter:
- (p.557) Chapter 19 Structural plasticity in dendrites and spines
- Source:
- Dendrites
- Author(s):
Tobias Bonhoeffer
Pico Caroni
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines some of the most important studies on the topic of structural plasticity in dendrites and spines, placing them into the context of information storage in the brain. The chapter starts with an assessment of the classical literature, which mostly relied on conventional light and electron microscopy. However, most emphasis in this chapter is on studies using state-of-the-art imaging approaches, which allow microscopical structural changes to be followed over time, including in awake animals performing complex behavioral tasks. The chapter ends with five particularly important open questions, providing an outlook into the future, and a discussion of where research on structural plasticity in relationship to synaptic plasticity and memory could stand in a few years’ time.
Keywords: dendrite, spine, microscopy, imaging, behavioral tasks, memory, synaptic plasticity
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- Title Pages
- Foreword to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Third Edition
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Dendrite structure
- Chapter 2 Evolution and scaling of dendrites
- Chapter 3 Dendrite development
- Chapter 4 Molecular determinants of dendrite and spine development
- Chapter 5 Local translation in dendrites
- Chapter 6 Structure and molecular organization of the postsynaptic density
- Chapter 7 Subcellular distribution of ligand- and voltage-gated ion channels
- Chapter 8 Neurotransmitter-gated ion channels in dendrites
- Chapter 9 Dendritic voltage-gated ion channels
- Chapter 10 Biochemical compartmentalization in dendrites
- Chapter 11 Spine calcium signaling
- Chapter 12 Principles of dendritic integration
- Chapter 13 Dendritic integration in vivo
- Chapter 14 Modeling dendrites: a personal perspective
- Chapter 15 A theoretical view of the neuron as an input–output computing device
- Chapter 16 Toward a simplified model of an active dendritic tree
- Chapter 17 Modeling dendrite shape
- Chapter 18 Functional plasticity at dendritic synapses
- Chapter 19 Structural plasticity in dendrites and spines
- Chapter 20 Molecular signaling during plasticity of dendritic spines
- Chapter 21 Dendrites as transmitters
- Chapter 22 Dendritic connectomics
- Chapter 23 Linking dendritic processing to computation and behavior in invertebrates
- Chapter 24 Dendrites and disease
- Chapter 25 The future of dendrite research
- Index