Concepts Related to Real-time Plasticity

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This article lists and discusses items about other concepts related to real-time plasticity.

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Hameroff, S., "Consciousness, Neurobiology and Quantum Mechanics: The Case for a Connection", in Tuszynski, J.A., Ed., The Emerging Physics of Consciousness, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2006, at pp. 193-253:
 * Page 220 (referring to microtubules as "MTs") proposes that MT lattice could represent and process information, with states of individual tubulins analogous to bits of data; page 220 also describes conformational states of proteins as "the currency of real-time activities" in cells and as an essential biological input-output function.
 * Page 224 describes how van der Waals London forces govern protein conformation.
 * Page 225, in discussing anesthesia, indicates role of normally occurring London forces in protein conformations and consciousness.
 * Page 226 describes anesthesia and consciousness as occurring in hydrophobic pockets of dendritic proteins.

Jacobs, G.H., Williams, G.A., Cahill, H., and Nathans, J., "Emergence of Novel Color Vision in Mice Engineered to Express a Human Cone Photopigment", Science, Vol. 315, 23 March 2007, pp. 1723-1725:
 * The abstract on page 1723 describes inherent plasticity in mammalian visual system as permitting emergence of dimension of sensory experience due to gene-driven changes.
 * Page 1723 describes color vision as requiring both photopigments and neural wiring, summarizes arguments about effects of adding a new class of cone photoreceptors to primate retina, and asks questions about mammalian brain plasticity and evolution.
 * Page 1725 proposes that alterations in receptor genes might permit new discriminations in a plastic nervous system.

Woolf, N.J., Priel, A., and Tuszynski, J.A., Nanoneuroscience: Structural and Functional Roles of the Neuronal Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2009:
 * Page 243 describes microtubule matrices in large ensembles of neurons as exhibitng collective plasticity with simultaneous upregulation or down-regulation of MAP2 proteolysis, and argues that collective proteolysis of cytoskeleton corresponds with higher cognitive function.
 * Fig. 6.4, page 244, shows large-scale MAP2 proteolysis due to animal learning.
 * Pages 243-244 describe Fig. 6.4 as showing that staining indicative of collective proteolysis stops abruptly at cortical module boundaries.