The medicinal leech has served as an important experimental preparation for neuroscience
research since the late 19th century. Initial anatomical and developmental studies dating …

Over the last 30 years, many laboratories have examined, in parallel, the feeding behaviour
of gastropod molluscs and the properties of the nervous system that give rise to this …

This book presents a thorough scholarly review of gastropod neurobiology presenting what
is known about identified nerve cells, neural circuits, and behavior. Aplysia has been a …

This review describes the advantages of adopting a molluscan complementary model, the
freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis, to study the neural basis of learning and memory in …

Brain functions are strictly dependent on neural connections formed during development
and modified during life. The cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying …

The nitric oxide (NO)-cGMP signaling pathway is implicated in an increasing number of
experimental models of plasticity. Here, in a behavioral analysis using one-trial appetitive …

The pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis is an excellent model system in which to study the
neuronal and molecular substrates of associative learning and its consolidation into long …

Protein synthesis is generally held to be essential for long‐term memory formation. Often two
periods of sensitivity to blockade of protein synthesis have been described, one immediately …

The aging brain undergoes a range of changes varying from subtle structural and
physiological changes causing only minor functional decline under healthy normal aging …

A training protocol was developed to classically condition feeding behavior in Aplysia
californica using tactile stimulation of the lips as the conditional stimulus (CS) and food as …