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Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus Foreword by E. Grastyan With 55 Figures and 3 Tables

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Professor Helmut L. Haas, M. D. II. Physiologisches Institut Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Saarstrasse 21,6500 Mainz Federal Republic of Germany

Professor Gyorgy Buzsaki, M. D. Department of Neurosciences M024 University of California at San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

ISBN-13: 978-3-642-73204-1 e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-73202-7 001: 10.1007/978-3-642-73202-7 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of'translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is only permitted under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its version of June 24, 1985, and a copyright fee must always be paid. Violations fall under the prosecution act of the German Copyright Law. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1988 The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trade marks, etc. in this publication, even if the former are not especially identified, is not to be taken as a sign that such names, as understood by the Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may accordingly be used freely by anyone. Product Liability: The publisher can give no guarantee for information about drug dosage and application thereof contained in this book. In every individual case the respective user must check its accuracy by consulting other pharmaceutical literature. Offsetprinting: Druckhaus Beltz, Hemsbach/Bergstr. Binding: J. Schaffer GmbH & Co. KG, GrOnstadt 2125/3145-543210

Foreword

This is the second time that I have had the honor of opening an international symposium dedicated to the functions of the hippocampus here in Pecs. It was a pleasure to greet the participants in the hope that their valuable contributions will make this meeting a tradition in this town. As one of the hosts of the symposium, I had the sorrowful duty to remind you of the absence of a dear colleague, Professor Graham Goddard. His tragic and untimely death represents the irreparable loss of both a friend and an excellent researcher. This symposium is dedicated to his memory. If I compare the topics of the lectures of this symposium with those of the previous one, a striking difference becomes apparent. A dominating tendency of the previous symposium was to attempt to define hippocampal function or to offer data relevant to supporting or rejecting existing theoretical positions. No such tendency is reflected in the titles of the present symposium, in which most of the contributions deal with hippocampal phenomena at the most elementary level. Electrical, biochemical, biophysical, and pharmacological events at the synaptic, membrane, or intracellular level are analyzed without raising the question of what