long-term potentiation

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Recent Examples on the Web One way that scientists think that happens is through something called long-term potentiation. — Megan Molteni, STAT, 15 Nov. 2021 The downside is that long-term potentiation is not the only mechanism by which our brains store information. — Megan Molteni, STAT, 15 Nov. 2021 Sleep appears to be important for long-term potentiation, a strengthening of signals between neurons that is widely regarded as a mechanism of learning and memory. — Steven C. Pan, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2016 One, called long-term potentiation, consists of individual nerves modifying themselves to grow and talk to their neighboring nerves differently. — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2019 All animals that have long-term memories use this same basic cellular machinery; scientists worked out the details of long-term potentiation by studying California sea slugs. — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2019

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long-term potentiation

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: a long-lasting strengthening of the response of a postsynaptic nerve cell to stimulation across the synapse that occurs with repeated stimulation and is thought to be related to learning and long-term memory First they repeatedly stimulated hippocampal neurons with an electric current and showed that long-term potentiation had taken place: the neurons were more sensitive to later stimulation, even an hour or more later, and more likely to transmit electric signals to their neighbors. — Discover —abbreviation LTP