Gary Lynch
Description
Gary Lynch is a professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of more than 550 scientific publications that are among the most cited in the field of neuroscience. He is the co-inventor of a novel family of cognition-enhancing drugs called “ampakines”, is co-founder of three technology companies (Cortex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: COR), Synaptics (NASDAQ: SYNA), and Thuris Corporation), has served as advisor to multiple professional entities including the Society for Neuroscience and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and has been featured in major television networks, newspapers, and magazines ranging from the Los Angeles Times to Popular Science.
Books
Big Brain
Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely human. But barely 10,000 years ago (a mere blip in evolutionary time) human-like creatures called "Boskops" flourished in South Africa. They possessed extraordinary features: forebrains roughly 50% larger than ours, and estimated IQs to match--far surpassing our own. Many of these huge fossil skulls have been discovered over the last century, but most of us have never heard of this scientific marvel.
Memory systems of the brain
Brains reasonably may be considered to be information processing systems, which acquire, store, and manipulate information in the service of adaptive behavior. Accordingly, learning and memory (i.e., acquisition and storage, respectively) are critical and central topics in neurobiology. A greatly increasing volume of research on learning and memory is a significant characteristic of current biological and behavioral approaches. There is ample reason to believe that this trend will continue because of the many advances that have emerged from recent studies relating learning and memory to their neural substrates, on the one hand, and placing them within their evolutionary and ecological contexts, on the other hand.
Brain and Memory
This volume focuses on several areas of the neurobiology of learning and memory in which there have been important developments in recent years. The areas of focus are emotion and memory, ageing and memory, cortical plasticity and memory, and LTP and memory.