Research Catalog

Title

Macromolecular specificity and biological memory / edited by Francis O. Schmitt.

Publication

• Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, [1962]
• ©1962

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Details

Additional Authors

Schmitt, Francis Otto, 1903-1995

Description

119 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The biophysics of macromolecules and of the neuron has been the subject of numerous formal and informal lectures in the Biology Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in recent years. Progress in the two fields has been so rapid during this period that one might hope that, from the common ground between them, new possibilities for an experimental attack upon the biophysical and biochemical mechanisms of mental processes may emerge. A lecture series was therefore planned which would present the opportunities to a wide range of specialists from behavioral scientists and clinicians, neurologists, biologists, biophysicists, and biochemists to physicists, chemists, and mathematicians who assembled one afternoon each week during the Spring Term of 1961. The series was exploratory in nature; no attempt was made to cover the subject matter thoroughly. Least of all was there a desire to search for substitutes at the molecular level for neuronal mechanisms already thoroughly documented by anatomical, pathological, electrophysiological, behavioral, and clinical evidence.

Series Statement

M.I.T. Press books in the biological sciences

Uniform Title

M.I.T. Press books in the biological sciences.

Subject

• Memory > Physiological aspects
• Macromolecules
• Brain
• Memory
• Neurons
• Memory
• Neurons
• Brain
• brains
• memory (psychological concept)
• 42.63 animal physiology
• Macromolecules
• Memory > Physiological aspects
• Macromoleculen
• Neuronen
• Mémoire

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- Macromolecular Specificity and Biological Memory / Francis O. Schmitt -- Biologically Structured Microfields and Stochastic Memory Models / Otto H. Schmitt -- Molecular Memory Models / Michael Kasha -- Controlled Conformation Changes in Protein Molecules: 21 A Possible Mechanism of Information Storage / Leroy G. Augenstine -- Comments Suggested By a Consideration of Computers / Michael P. Barnett -- Molecular Basis of Information Storage and Transfer in Biological Systems / Alexander Rich -- Precision of the Genetic Control over the Synthesis of the Protein Hemoglobin / Vernon M. Ingram -- Basic Mechanisms of Antibody Synthesis / David Gitlin -- Biological Coding: A Summary / Peter F. Davison -- Neuronal Ultrastructure / Sanford L. Palay -- Molecular Basis of Specificity in Membranes / Humberto Fernandez-Moran -- Structure and Function of Neuroglia / Walther Hild -- Glia, Neurons, and Information Storage / Robert Galambos -- Molecular Basis of Neuron-Glia Interaction / Bolger Hyden -- Problems of Molecular Coding / Roger W. Sperry -- Electrochemical Mechanisms and Information Storage in Nerve Cells / Frank Morrell -- Studies of Memory / E. Roy John -- Some Neurophysiologic Problems in Storage of Information / Frank R. Ervin -- Circulation of Impulses and Memory / Rafael Lorente De No -- Electrical Sensing In Fish / Theodore H. Bullock -- Psychological Specificity -- Does It Exist? / Heinrich Kluver -- Perspectives in the Problems of Biological Memory -A Psychologist's View / Hans-Lukas Teuber -- Varieties of Learning and Memory in Animals / Daniel S. Lehrman -- Amnestic Syndrome / Raymond D. Adams -- Some Lessons about Human Memory Learned from the Korsakoff's syndrome / George A. Talland.

LCCN

62017796

OCLC

• ocm00560442
• 560442
• SCSB-286639

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library