Advances in Synaptic Plasticity edited by M. Baudry, J.L. Davis and R.F. Thompson

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MIT Press, 2000. $65.00 (xiv+335 pages)ISBN 0 262 02460 8Books that result from conferences are like the ‘doggie bags’ that people sometimes bring back from restaurants: the contents have gone cold, some courses are missing and sometimes you even wonder why there were leftovers in the first place. Nevertheless, when you are told in the Preface that the conference was held in a 15th-century castle in France with ‘abundant delicious local wines and food’, you cannot help opening the bag with some curiosity. This collection of chapters is edited by the same team who gave us the informative and comprehensive Synaptic Plasticity: Molecular, Cellular and Functional Aspects1xSee all