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Nature Neuroscience 7, 98 - 100 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nn0204-98
Storing memories in dendritic channels
Michael Häusser1
- The author is at the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Physiology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. e-mail: m.hausser@ucl.ac.uk
Abstract
An elegant study in this issue shows that induction of synaptic plasticity can also trigger long-lasting increases in dendritic excitability near the potentiated synapses. This may represent a new locus for memory storage and a substrate for metaplasticity.
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