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Marine Snail Study Leads To New Insights Into Long-term Memo

sciencedaily.com — UCLA cellular neuroscientists are providing new insights into the mechanisms that underlie long-term memory -- research with the potential to treat long-term memory disorders.

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  • virginian9000, on 06/22/2008, -0/+2I'm glad people much smarter than me are looking at this, lol.
  • hiPpymIck, on 06/22/2008, -0/+1so long term memory formation depends on post synaptic feedback (..from the brain?)

    they used to think
    Seratonin directly caused pre synaptic axons to grow (..ie memory)

    but now they think
    Seratonin causes increased post synaptic calcium which _then_ causes pre synaptic axons to grow

    FTA
    "the process is not actually initiated in the presynaptic axon, but that this presynaptic change is actually initiated in the postsynaptic neuron."

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