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memory

Freddie flittlej at black.clarku.edu
Mon Jan 30 01:20:21 EST 1995


> The second mechanism is much more heavily studied and involves storing 
> information within the synapses by adjusting their strength.  This is 
> thought to occur by increasing the amount of transmitter released from the 
> presynaptic terminal or by increasing the postsynaptic response to a given 
> amount of transmitter, or through both mechanisms (see Churchland and 
> Sejnowski, The Computational Brain).  

Neuromodulators affect the PSP of a given amount of neurotransmitter. 
Are neuromodulators know to have an effect on memory?  If
neuromodulator were administered to a human subject would it not have a
tremendous impact on memory for the time it is active?


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