Long-term potentiation

9/22/99


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Long-term potentiation

Aristotle (350 BC)

William James (1892)

Donald Hebb (1949)

Long-term memory

Synaptic plasticity

Readings

Hippocampus

Frontal section of human brain

Three principal pathways

Perforant pathway LTP (in vivo)

Schaffer collateral LTP (in vitro)

Basis of classical conditioning?

Synaptic plasticity

Induction: the players

Glutamate receptors

Magnesium block

AP5 is a selective blocker

Calcium imaging

Dendritic spines

Calcium transients in spines

Model for LTP induction

Explanation of LTP properties

Elaborations of induction model

LTP vs. other types of plasticity

LTP phases

LTP1 mechanisms: pre or post?

Protein kinases

AMPA receptor changes

“Post-” model for expression

Quantal analysis

Retrograde messenger

LTP in cortical pyramidal cells

LTP requires pairing

AP/EPSP pairing

Dependence on spike timing

Hippocampal LTP and LTD

Summary

Author: Sebastian Seung