On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 00:04:46 +0100, "Brian" <zhil at online.no> wrote:
>"Richard Norman" <rsnorman at mediaone.net> skrev i melding
>news:i6sott07ajfigad82qn7j8ru00ccq6o3pr at 4ax.com...>> I would guess that you are not a wet-lab hands-on neurobiologist.
>> Otherwise, you would be a lot more cautious about these predictions.
>> The ideas are interesting, but at this time merely blue-sky
>> speculation. In the lab, things go much more slowly.
>>Yep, my field is electronics................................
>I wish things were easy, but then it wouldn't be interesting.
>Anyway, I don't have access to a lab, so I'm reduced (sadly) to books and
>theoretical castles-in-the-sky.
>How about you, what kind of experience do you have ? I'm just
>curious...........so please don't take offense.
>At the rate of research, the quest for the inner secrets of the neuron
>(which has partly been layed open) is going to progress quite rapidly; not
>at the same rate as VLSI-circuits, but nontheless I'm optimistic.
>What I've gathered is that research is done on the structural part of the
>neural networks with fMRI etc.
>That will take quite some time.
>Question, I've gathered a lot from "Memory" which went in some detail about
>the CA1-area,the CA3-area and the Entorhinal Cortex in the Hippocampus.
>But are there any books <*sigh*> that goes into it in more detail, than the
>quick and easy way that Kandel et al provided thorough their book ??
>They're quite good, but they were focusing for the general reader, and so
>skipped parts/details that might illuminate certain topics.
>>Brian
>PS.Thanks for your feedback - it is a sort of reward that I appreciate, so
>thanks for your time.
>I am personally more interested in invertebrate nervous systems (as
well as mathematical modeling). In fact I teach Neurobiology (as well
as Animal Physiology and Intro Biology) at the undergrad level at Univ
Mich - Dearborn.
Are you referring to the chapter on memory in "Principles of Neural
Science" by Kandel, Schwartz and Jessell? If not that is the book you
should refer to first. (McGraw-Hill, 2000 ). Anything beyond that you
will have to get from the research literature.