A clustered plasticity model of long-term memory engrams

Autor: Susumu Tonegawa, Arvind Govindarajan, Raymond J. Kelleher
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 7:575-583
ISSN: 1471-0048
1471-003X
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1937
Popis: Long-term memory and its putative synaptic correlates the late phases of both long-term potentiation and long-term depression require enhanced protein synthesis. On the basis of recent data on translation-dependent synaptic plasticity and on the supralinear effect of activation of nearby synapses on action potential generation, we propose a model for the formation of long-term memory engrams at the single neuron level. In this model, which we call clustered plasticity, local translational enhancement, along with synaptic tagging and capture, facilitates the formation of long-term memory engrams through bidirectional synaptic weight changes among synapses within a dendritic branch.
Databáze: OpenAIRE