学习与记忆神经机制研究进展

学习与记忆是大脑的重要高级功能,认知神经科学的迅速发展为探索学习与记忆的神经机制提供了新的思路和方法。突触的可塑性变化可能是记忆形成与巩固的分子与细胞机制,随着神经联结的形成,大脑构建出不同的记忆通路,不同类型的记忆又享有各自的记忆系统。对记忆的脑机制研究能够指导人们如何有效地提高记忆。论述了记忆的形成与巩固的神经机制,脑的记忆系统以及如何有效地提高记忆成绩。     

若干有关学习和记忆神经机制问题的讨论

若干有关学习和记忆神经机制问题的讨论梅镇彤（中国科学院上海生理研究所,上海２０００３１）目录一、学习和记忆的分类问题二、突触可塑性与学习记忆三、运动学习记忆的神经基础四、长时记忆分子生物学研究的新进展五、结束语学习和记忆是脑的重要功能,关于学习和记忆...     

昆虫联想学习记忆研究的几种双通道范式

昆虫的大多数行为一直被认为是生来就有的本能行为,然而,近年来的研究已经证明大多数昆虫具有高度的学习记忆能力,并表现出对环境的适应行为。这些研究主要是采取了联想学习记忆的双通道范式。这些双通道范式,在学习记忆神经机制的研究中起到了重要的作用。本文主要综述近年来关于昆虫学习记忆研究的进展,重点介绍昆虫联想学习记忆研究的几种双通道范式。这对充分理解昆虫联想学习记忆的神经机制以及进一步深入开展学习与记忆功能的研究有重要的科学意义。     

学习与记忆的机制简介

学习和记忆是动物中枢神经系统高级活动的一种方式,也是动物赖以生存和进化发展的关键。对学习和记忆机制的研究,积累了大量资料,主要体现在神经生理和生物化学两个方面。１学习与记忆的脑功能定位尽管学习记忆涉及整个脑的广泛变化,但某些特殊的区域和环路与学习记忆...     

学习记忆机制研究的简介

本文介绍了无脊椎动物。脊椎动物与人的学习、记忆的不同类型，即简单学习、结合学习、复合学习．记忆过程的神经基础及其神经机理，学习、记忆与神经肽的相关关系，以及学习与记忆的神经分子生物学新进展。     

突触蛋白在学习记忆过程中的作用

学习和记忆是脑的高级功能。学习指人和动物获得外界知识的神经过程;记忆指将获得的知识储存和读出的神经过程。突触蛋白(synapsin)是一种与突触结构和功能密切相关的膜蛋白,在突触的可塑性以及长时程增强(long-timepotentiation,LTP)中起着重要作用。而突触可塑性是突触对内外环境变化作出反应的能力,是学习记忆的神经生物学基础。LTP一直被认为是学习记忆的神经基础之一,是突触可塑性的功能指标,也是研究学习记忆的理想模型。该文介绍突触蛋白在学习记忆过程中的作用及机制、突触蛋白在学习记忆研究中的应用。     

综述: 学习和记忆的跨代遗传：果蝇能告诉我们真相吗？

学习记忆是一个获取、储存和再巩固新知识的过程,并以行为作为输出信号.学习记忆是高等生物适应动态环境不可或缺的。学习和记忆能力缺陷会导致精神类疾病,如精神分裂症、抑郁症和阿尔兹海默病等.近年来,有研究发现这些精神类疾病能够遗传给后代,所以以动物模型来研究学习和记忆的跨代遗传机制已经开始.在这篇综述里,首先简要概括了目前有关学习和记忆的分子机制、神经环路和跨代遗传的可能机制;然后,讨论了利用果蝇模型来研究学习和记忆跨代遗传的可能性.最后,我们提供了可能的策略用以揭示果蝇学习和记忆跨代遗传的表观遗传机制.     

钙神经素与学习和记忆

钙神经素 (calcineurin ,CN)是一种钙依赖的蛋白磷酸酶 ,其催化亚基的基因编码具严格保守性。近年来研究证明其在学习和记忆中有重要作用 ,参与了大脑神经元突触效应的去增强、多种不同机制的长时程抑制 (LTD)、长时程增强 (LTP)、认知记忆、短期记忆向长期记忆的转换、脑老化等过程。深入研究CN参与学习和记忆的机制及其与记忆减退性疾病的关系 ,具有重要理论与实践意义     

学习和记忆的跨代遗传:果蝇能告诉我们真相吗?（英文）

学习记忆是一个获取、储存和再巩固新知识的过程,并以行为作为输出信号.学习记忆是高等生物适应动态环境不可或缺的。学习和记忆能力缺陷会导致精神类疾病,如精神分裂症、抑郁症和阿尔兹海默病等.近年来,有研究发现这些精神类疾病能够遗传给后代,所以以动物模型来研究学习和记忆的跨代遗传机制已经开始.在这篇综述里,首先简要概括了目前有关学习和记忆的分子机制、神经环路和跨代遗传的可能机制;然后,讨论了利用果蝇模型来研究学习和记忆跨代遗传的可能性.最后,我们提供了可能的策略用以揭示果蝇学习和记忆跨代遗传的表观遗传机制.     

LTP是学习和记忆的神经基础吗？

长时程增强（ＬＴＰ）的研究已有２０多年的历史。对ＬＴＰ的神经机制已有了较深入的了解,然而到目前为止对ＬＴＰ与学习和记忆的关系仍有不同的看法。本文简要介绍了ＬＴＰ与学习和记忆关系研究的一些主要实验结果,如行为ＬＴＰ、ＬＴＰ饱和以及经理手段或基因操作改变ＬＴＰ诱导而记忆功能等,并讨论了ＬＴＰ与学习和记忆关系的复杂性以及今后的研究方向 。     

Short-term and long-term memory in single cells

Many approaches have been used to study short- and long-term memory. Bacteria detect chemical gradients using a memory obtained by the combination of a fast excitation process and a slow adaptation process. This model system, which has the advantages of extensive genetic and biochemical information, shows no features of long-term memory. To study long-term memory, neural cell line systems have been developed that exhibit two phenomena associated with learning and memory, habituation and potentiation. The expression of these phenomena in clonal cell lines, devoid of synaptic connections, makes it possible to study the biochemical and molecular mechanisms that contribute to short-term and long-term memory.     

Cognitive Behavioral Performance of Untreated Depressed Patients with Mild Depressive Symptoms

This study evaluated the working memory performance of 18 patients experiencing their first onset of mild depression without treatment and 18 healthy matched controls. The results demonstrated that working memory impairment in patients with mild depression occurred when memorizing the position of a picture but not when memorizing the pictures themselves. There was no significant difference between the two groups in the emotional impact on the working memory, indicating that the attenuation of spatial working memory was not affected by negative emotion; however, cognitive control selectively affected spatial working memory. In addition, the accuracy of spatial working memory in the depressed patients was not significantly reduced, but the reaction time was significantly extended compared with the healthy controls. This finding indicated that there was no damage to memory encoding and function maintenance in the patients but rather only impaired memory retrieval, suggesting that the extent of damage to the working memory system and cognitive control abilities was associated with the corresponding depressive symptoms. The development of mild to severe depressive symptoms may be accompanied by spatial working memory damage from the impaired memory retrieval function extending to memory encoding and memory retention impairments. In addition, the impaired cognitive control began with an inadequate capacity to automatically process internal negative emotions and further extended to impairment of the ability to regulate and suppress external emotions. The results of the mood-congruent study showed that the memory of patients with mild symptoms of depression was associated with a mood-congruent memory effect, demonstrating that mood-congruent memory was a typical feature of depression, regardless of the severity of depression. This study provided important information for understanding the development of cognitive dysfunction.     

青春期小鼠与成年小鼠在吗啡和食物诱导条件化位置偏爱建立上的异同

该实验通过采用吗啡诱导的条件位置偏爱(conditioned place preference,CPP)与食物诱导CPP相结合的方法来研究青春期小鼠和成年小鼠的普通学习记忆和成瘾学习记忆之间是否存在差异。结果发现:1)成年小鼠能够建立吗啡诱导CPP,而青春期小鼠不能建立;2)青春期小鼠和成年小鼠都能够建立食物诱导CPP。吗啡诱导CPP的结果提示,青春期小鼠和成年小鼠在成瘾学习记忆上有差异,青春期小鼠的成瘾记忆能力较弱。食物诱导CPP的结果提示,青春期小鼠和成年小鼠在普通学习记忆上没有差异。吗啡诱导CPP和食物诱导CPP的结果比较提示,小鼠的普通学习记忆系统和成瘾学习记忆系统发育进程是不平行的。     

Role of the apolipoprotein E and catechol-O-methyltransferase genes in prospective and retrospective memory traits

Human memory is a complex neurocognitive process. By combining psychological and molecular genetics expertise, we examined the APOE ε4 allele, a known risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, and the COMT Val 158 polymorphism, previously implicated in schizophrenia, for association with lowered memory functioning in healthy adults. To assess memory type we used a range of memory tests of both retrospective and prospective memory. Genotypes were determined using RFLP analysis and compared with mean memory scores using univariate ANOVAs. Despite a modest sample size (n=197), our study found a significant effect of the APOE ε4 polymorphism in prospective memory. Supporting our hypothesis, a significant difference was demonstrated between genotype groups for means of the Comprehensive Assessment of Prospective Memory total score (p=0.036; ε4 alleles=1.99; all other alleles=1.86). In addition, we demonstrate a significant interactive effect between the APOE ε4 and COMT polymorphisms in semantic memory. This is the first study to investigate both APOE and COMT genotypes in relation to memory in non-pathological adults and provides important information regarding the effect of genetic determinants on human memory.     

轻度认知损伤患者的联系记忆损伤特征

遗忘型轻度认知损伤患者(aMCI)在项目记忆和联系记忆上都有损伤．本文通过临床记忆量表中的项目记忆和联系记忆测验,研究aMCI的联系记忆是否比项目记忆有更显著的损伤．另外,通过分析配对联想学习测验,进一步研究aMCI联系记忆损伤的特点．25名aMCI和28名健康老人参与了两个联系记忆测验(配对联想学习测验和联想回忆测验)和两个项目记忆测验(图像自由回忆和无意义图形再认),aMCI患者在联系记忆测验上表现出了更显著的损伤,即使控制了项目记忆的损伤,aMCI的联系记忆仍然比健康老人显著降低．另外,ROC分析表明联系记忆测验比项目记忆测验对aMCI病人有更高的区分度．对配对联想学习测验的分析表明,相对于健康老人,aMCI患者在记忆有语言联系的词对要比记忆无语义联系的词对更为困难．本研究进一步表明aMCI患者的联系记忆比项目记忆有更大的损伤．相对于健康老人,aMCI患者不仅难以在两个无关项目间创建记忆连接,而且在有效利用项目间本身的语义联系方面存在更大的损伤．联系记忆测验比项目记忆测验对aMCI患者有更高的区分度．在神经心理评估中增加联系记忆测验,能更加有效地识别aMCI患者．     

CCK-8 Inhibits Acute Morphine-induced Spatial Reference Memory Impairment in Mice

Administration of morphine may impair learning and memory processes. Cholecystokinin has been reported to be involved in various types of memory, and our previous study found that Cholecystokinin octapeptide attenuates spatial memory impairment in chronic morphine-treated mice. However, the effect of CCK-8 on acute morphine-induced memory impairment is not clear. In this study, effect of acute CCK-8 and morphine on spatial reference memory was evaluated using Morris water maze in KM mice. Acetylcholine (Ach) content was measured using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC–MS/MS). Pre-training with morphine (5, 10 mg/kg, i.p.) significantly impaired spatial reference memory acquisition without disturbing the performance in the visible platform task, while pre-test morphine has no effect on memory retrieval. Pre-training (0.01, 0.1 and 1 μg, i.c.v.) or pre-test (0.1 and 1 μg, i.c.v.) of CCK-8 facilitated spatial reference memory acquisition and retrieval, respectively. CCK-8 (0.1 and 1 μg) significantly attenuated memory loss by pre-training morphine. Furthermore, CCK-8 (1 μg, i.c.v) increased acetylcholine contents of hippocampus in saline or morphine-treated mice. Our study identifies CCK-8 reversed spatial reference memory loss induced by acute morphine, and the mnemonic effect could be related to the facilitation of CCK-8 on memory acquisition and retrieval through accelerating acetylcholine release in hippocampus.     

Debra, a protein mediating lysosomal degradation, is required for long-term memory in Drosophila

A central goal of neuroscience is to understand how neural circuits encode memory and guide behavior changes. Many of the molecular mechanisms underlying memory are conserved from flies to mammals, and Drosophila has been used extensively to study memory processes. To identify new genes involved in long-term memory, we screened Drosophila enhancer-trap P(Gal4) lines showing Gal4 expression in the mushroom bodies, a specialized brain structure involved in olfactory memory. This screening led to the isolation of a memory mutant that carries a P-element insertion in the debra locus. debra encodes a protein involved in the Hedgehog signaling pathway as a mediator of protein degradation by the lysosome. To study debra's role in memory, we achieved debra overexpression, as well as debra silencing mediated by RNA interference. Experiments conducted with a conditional driver that allowed us to specifically restrict transgene expression in the adult mushroom bodies led to a long-term memory defect. Several conclusions can be drawn from these results: i) debra levels must be precisely regulated to support normal long-term memory, ii) the role of debra in this process is physiological rather than developmental, and iii) debra is specifically required for long-term memory, as it is dispensable for earlier memory phases. Drosophila long-term memory is the only long-lasting memory phase whose formation requires de novo protein synthesis, a process underlying synaptic plasticity. It has been shown in several organisms that regulation of proteins at synapses occurs not only at translation level of but also via protein degradation, acting in remodeling synapses. Our work gives further support to a role of protein degradation in long-term memory, and suggests that the lysosome plays a role in this process.     

A Spike-Timing Pattern Based Neural Network Model for the Study of Memory Dynamics

It is well accepted that the brain''s computation relies on spatiotemporal activity of neural networks. In particular, there is growing evidence of the importance of continuously and precisely timed spiking activity. Therefore, it is important to characterize memory states in terms of spike-timing patterns that give both reliable memory of firing activities and precise memory of firing timings. The relationship between memory states and spike-timing patterns has been studied empirically with large-scale recording of neuron population in recent years. Here, by using a recurrent neural network model with dynamics at two time scales, we construct a dynamical memory network model which embeds both fast neural and synaptic variation and slow learning dynamics. A state vector is proposed to describe memory states in terms of spike-timing patterns of neural population, and a distance measure of state vector is defined to study several important phenomena of memory dynamics: partial memory recall, learning efficiency, learning with correlated stimuli. We show that the distance measure can capture the timing difference of memory states. In addition, we examine the influence of network topology on learning ability, and show that local connections can increase the network''s ability to embed more memory states. Together theses results suggest that the proposed system based on spike-timing patterns gives a productive model for the study of detailed learning and memory dynamics.     

Episodic memory in nonhumans: what, and where, is when?

Episodic memory is defined as the recollection of specific events in one's past, accompanied by the experience of having been there personally. This definition presents high hurdles to the investigation of episodic memory in nonhumans. Recent studies operationalize episodic memory as memory for when and where an event occurred, for the order in which events occurred, or for an animal's own behavior. None of these approaches has yet generalized across species, and each fails to capture features of human episodic memory. Nonetheless, the study of episodic memory in nonhumans seems less daunting than it did five years ago. To demonstrate a correspondence between human episodic memory and nonhuman memory, progress is needed in three areas. Putative episodic memories in nonhumans should be shown to be; first, represented in long-term memory, rather than short-term or working memory; second, explicit, or accessible to introspection; and third, distinct from semantic memory, or general knowledge about the world.     

Anatomical heterogeneity of memory CD4+ T cells due to reversible adaptation to the microenvironment

The memory T cell pool is characterized by a substantial degree of heterogeneity in phenotype and function as well as anatomical distribution, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In this study we confirm that the memory CD4(+) T cell pool in wild-type and TCR-transgenic mice consists of heterogeneous subsets, as defined by surface marker expression or cytokine production. Extralymphoid sites contain significant numbers of memory CD4(+) T cells, which are phenotypically and functionally distinct from their lymphoid counterparts. However, we show in this study that the phenotype of lymphoid and extralymphoid memory T cells is not stable. Instead, the unique properties of extralymphoid memory T cells are acquired upon migration into extralymphoid sites and are lost when memory T cells migrate back into lymphoid organs. Thus, at least some of the extralymphoid properties may represent a transient activation state that can be adopted by T cells belonging to a single memory T cell pool. Furthermore, such intermittent activation during or after migration into extralymphoid sites could provide an important signal, promoting the survival and functional competence of memory T cells in the absence of Ag.