Storing Information in the Nervous System
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- is excited by the neurotransmitter glutamate, but it can also respond to a drug called a-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid
- Pairing a weak input with a strong input enhances later response to the weak input
- brain-derived neurotrophic factor, a neurotrophin similar to nerve growth factor

- —Nearly simultaneous stimulation by two or more axons produces LTP much more strongly than does repeated stimulation by just one axon.
- is a decrease in response to a stimulus that is presented repeatedly and accompanied by no change in other stimuli.
- A synapse that increases in effectiveness because of simultaneous activity in the presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons is called a ___________
- a prolonged decrease in response at a synapse, occurs for axons that have been less active than others
- One or more axons connected to a dendrite bombard it with a rapid series of stimuli.