Table of Contents

Preface: Learning Cognitive Sciences; Cognitive Disruption in Angelman Syndrome: From Mouse Models to Molecular Mechanisms; Role of Genetic and Nongenetic Vascular Risk Factors in Sproadic Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease; ERP Studies of Recognition Memory: Differential Effects of Familiarity, Recollection and Episodic Priming; Infantile Amnesia: A Cross-Cultural Investigation; The NDRG Gene Family and Human Nervous System Disorders; Neurobehavioral Characteristics of Presenilin Transgenic Mice; Synaptic Plasticity in Addition; Cortical Plasticity for Language Processing in the Human Brain; Memory Reconsolidation: A Molecular Perspective; Neuroprotective Effects of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I against Neurotoxic Amyloid; How and Where Does AB Exert its Toxic Effects in Alzheimer's Disease?; Brain Function in Altered States of Consciousness: Comparison Between Alzheimer Dementia and Vegetative State; Categorization of Species-Specific Vocalizations in the Non-Human Primate: Features Guiding Behavioral Discrimination and Neural Processing in the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex; Role of Endoplasmic Reticulum-Mediated Apoptotic Pathway in AB Toxicity; The P300 Component of the Event-Related Brain Potential and Bayes' Theorem; Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Pavlovian Conditioning; Index.

About the Author

Miao-Kun Sun, Ph.D. obtained his Ph.D. at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, in 1986, and continued postdoctoral research at the same department for two more years. After a brief research period (one year) at the Department of Physiology, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University College of London, he accepted a faculty position at Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College in New York in 1990. His current position is Professor at Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (holding the same position since 2000).