Spontaneous Activity Drives Local Synaptic Plasticity In Vivo

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Channel: Cell Press · 2015 · Science & Technology

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Winnubst et al. explain their discovery of a simple local plasticity rule that is driven by spontaneous activity in development. They found that synapses that are not often co-active with neighboring synapses become depressed in their transmission efficiency.
Check out the paper at http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(15)00572-3.

J. Winnubst, J.E. Cheyne, D. Niculescu, C. Lohmann (2015). Spontaneous Activity Drives Local Synaptic Plasticity In Vivo. Neuron 87(2).

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