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Chapter and Conference Paper
Possible Strategies for Using Sleep to Improve Episodic Memory in the Face of Overlap
It is not known what biological benefits may derive from information handling during sleep. Several facts about sleep suggest that information handling does take place, in different fashions in the two princip...
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Chapter
Magnetic Observation of Spreading Cortical Depression in Anaesthetized Rabbits
Spreading depression (SD) is a profound disturbance of the environment of brain cells that occurs as a stereotyped response to several types of strong stimulation or trauma (for reviews see e.g. Bures et al., ...
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Article
Conversion of the sceptics
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Article
Neurophysiology: Potential challenge from glia
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Article
Retinal physiology: A foot in the vitreous fluid
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Chapter
The Role of Cells in the Dispersal of Brain Extracellular Potassium
What is the fate of potassium which is released into the extracellular space around active neurons? A lot of information relevant to this has appeared in the last ten years, much of it obtained through the use...
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Chapter
Movement of Potassium into Glial Cells in the Retina of the Drone, Apis mellifera, During Photostimulation
Experiments on the drone retina have led to direct demonstrations of metabolic and ionic interactions between glial cells and sensory neurons. The tissue is composed of two essentially uniform populations of c...
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Article
Modifiable Synapses necessary for Learning
Even the simplest types of synaptic modification might be the basis of memory; and both short term and long term memory may have similar mechanisms.