New learning was found to occur with the construction of synaptic connections between brain cells.
He won the Nobel Prize in 2000 for investigations of synaptic activity that occurred during reflex learning in sea snails.
What if larger human brain size is just a side effect of evolutionary selection for prolonged synaptic plasticity during human childhood?
Memories form when new synapses are created between brain cells, or when old synaptic links are strengthened.
A portion of the transmitters (factor r) returns from the synaptic cleft into the presynaptic hair cell.
The authors review evidence indicating that dynamic structural interactions between astrocytes and synapses affect hippocampal synaptic physiology, behavior, and disease.
If so, focal paroxysmal activity would spread rapidly and simultaneously in the cortex and thalamus using synaptic pathways.
Axonal plus synaptic delays are 2.0 ms in both directions.
