Metaplasticity: Tuning synapses and networks for plasticity

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 387-399

  Abraham, Wickliffe C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 42349089481     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2356     Document Type: Review

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