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RE: The Neuroscience of Memory Formation.
Very Interesting post. Thank you for sharing your experience. So does LTP affect gene expression or dose gene expression affect LTP?
Very Interesting post. Thank you for sharing your experience. So does LTP affect gene expression or dose gene expression affect LTP?
Thank you for participating here @psychassist! It's most accurate to say that gene expression is part of LTP. However, in the 2-receptor mechanism from my article, the NMDA receptor activation would initiate a chain of reactions leading to gene expression of proteins which then act to facilitate and make more permanent this LTP event. So, the initial "receptor-stage" LTP event effects gene expression, and gene expression effects the duration and magnitude of LTP. I hope that makes sense :)