Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)
Rats and mice can be trained to solve simple tasks. For example, if a mouse is placed in a pool of murky water, it will swim about until it finds a hidden platform to climb out on.
Long-term potentiation
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Long-term potentiation
In neuroscience, long-term potentiation (LTP) is the strengthening (or potentiation) of the connection between two nerve cells which lasts for an extended period of time (minutes to hours in vitro and hours to days and ...
Long-Term Potentiation
In LTP, neurons continue to fire at an elevated rate, even though the stimulus has returned to normal.
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Characterized early symptoms (3-9 months) include disturbed behaviour, neophobia, aggression, hypersensitivity to kainic acid, hyposensitivity to N-methyl-D-aspartate, defective cognition and memory, and decreased long-term potentiation.
 See also: Long, Neuron, Memory, Trans, Protein
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