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Storing memories in dendritic channels

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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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Figure 1: Plastic dendrites.

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