[Neuroscience] Re: Long-term potentiation and depression

[Entertained by my own EIMC]

"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.