Is learning blocked by saturation of synaptic weights in the hippocampus?

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 661-672

  Moser, Edvard I ^a   Moser, May Britt ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dentete gyrus; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; Memory; Saturation; Spatial learning; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) II; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0033015281     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(98)00060-8     Document Type: Article

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