…with Love, from Post to Pre

Panayiota Poirazi; George Kastellakis

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.022

…with Love, from Post to Pre

Neuron. 2017 Sep 27;96(1):9-10. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.022.

Authors

Panayiota Poirazi¹, George Kastellakis²

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Electronic address: poirazi@imbb.forth.gr.
² Institute for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

PMID: 28957680
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.022

Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Costa et al. (2017) introduce a theoretical framework that predicts the ratio of presynaptic and postsynaptic changes taking place during LTP and LTD and show that these processes co-operate so as to optimize the postsynaptic response statistics.

MeSH terms

Humans
Long-Term Potentiation*
Memory / physiology*
Neurons
Synapses*