[Neuroscience] Re: Long-term potentiation and depression
(by r_s_norman from _comcast.net)
Thu Jun 12 20:50:04 EST 2008
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:24:40 +1000, "Entertained by my own EIMC"
<decoy from mindyaown.biz> wrote:
>"Christian Wilms" <usenet02 from out-of-phase.de> wrote in message
>news:1iifgvx.1y7rwd71anserqN%usenet02 from out-of-phase.de...
>> I think in general short-term plasticity refers to changes lasting
>> seconds and minutes, while long-term refers to changes lasting hours
>> (though 30 minutes is commonly considered to be long-enough-term for
>> experimental purposes ;)
>That a brainscientist (presumably) can be so narrow-minded as to limit his
>definition of LTP to "hours" is *almost* unbelievable, to me.
What is unbelievable? I understood "hours" to mean "hours or more".
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