This book provides with comprehensive diagrams about associative memory cells and their working principles that may be applied to associative memories and memory-relevant cognitions. It also presents author's personal perspectives about pathology and therapeutic strategies for memory deficits in patients suffering from neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders. Associative learning is a common approach to acquire multiple associated signals including knowledge, experiences and skills from nature environments or social interaction. The revelation of cellular and molecular mechanism underlying associative memory is important for us to understand the principles of memory formation and memory-relevant behaviors as well as to develop the therapeutic strategies that enhance memory capacity in health individuals and improve memory deficit in patients suffering from neurological disease and psychiatric disorders. Although a series of hypotheses about neural substrates for associative memory has been proposed, numerous questions still need to be addressed, especially basic units and their working principle in engram circuit specifically for various memory patterns. This book summarizes the developments about associative memory cells from historical and current literatures. It will serve as a valuable source for neuroscientists, psychologists and students to get an overview of this field. weiterlesen