University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience > TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Synaptic plasticity and memory"

  Browse A-Z

Log in

University Account External (via Google)

🔐 Log In

Information on

Subscribing to talksdetails Finding a talkdetails Adding a talkdetails Disseminating talksdetails Help and Documentationdetails

ℹ️ Information

TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Synaptic plasticity and memory"

Download to your calendar using vCal

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Lyn Dakin .

There is now overwhelming evidence that memories are stored in the mammalian brain by the agency of synaptic plasticity – the process by which activity in cortical circuits leads to long-term changes in synaptic efficacy. I will trace the origins of these ideas from the work of Ramon y Cajal in the late 19th century, through Hebb’s trenchant encapsulation of the widely held hypothesis that synaptic activity itself must engender changes is synaptic function, to the first identification of ‘Hebbian’ synapses in the hippocampus in the 1970s. Since then an enormous amount has been learned about the cellular mechanisms underlying long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) at hippocampal synapses. In my talk I will briefly summarize these advances and go on to discuss recent work which has sought to establish how the physiological phenomena of LTP and LTD relate to memory and learning in the behaving animal.

This talk is part of the Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience series.

This talk is included in these lists:

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.

Other lists

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ Dirac Room, St Johns College, Cambridge BAS Seminar Room 1 and Zoom

Other talks

Group Work The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO): Status and First Physics Results Machine Politics? Computers and AI in the History of Political Thought Online Causal Inference Seminar Group Work Favourite Plants: the common, the captivating, and the curious
 

© 2006-2025 Talks.cam, University of Cambridge. Contact Us | Help and Documentation | Privacy and Publicity