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Nature 394, 834-835 (27 August 1998) | doi:10.1038/29655

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Synaptic plasticity:  Down with novelty

Richard G. M. Morris1

"Too many new ideas around here," I tease my colleagues, when unfinished but much-loved experiments are dropped in favour of pursuing something else dreamed up the night before. "But you always say that the best experiments start in the pub," they intone, "...and it's different from the same old stuff we've been doing for years.

  1. Richard G. M. Morris is in the Department of Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, UK.
    e-mail: Email: r.g.m.morris@ed.ac.uk