TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Synaptic plasticity and memory"

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• Tim Bliss, University College London
• Monday 05 February 2018, 16:30-18:00
• The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

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There is now overwhelming evidence that memories are stored in the mammalian brain by the agency of synaptic plasticity – the process by which activity in cortical circuits leads to long-term changes in synaptic efficacy. I will trace the origins of these ideas from the work of Ramon y Cajal in the late 19th century, through Hebb’s trenchant encapsulation of the widely held hypothesis that synaptic activity itself must engender changes is synaptic function, to the first identification of ‘Hebbian’ synapses in the hippocampus in the 1970s. Since then an enormous amount has been learned about the cellular mechanisms underlying long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) at hippocampal synapses. In my talk I will briefly summarize these advances and go on to discuss recent work which has sought to establish how the physiological phenomena of LTP and LTD relate to memory and learning in the behaving animal.

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