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Synaptic Modifications and Memory - An Electrophysiological Analysis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Synaptic Modifications and Memory - An Electrophysiological Analysis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Series: Studies of Brain Function, 19
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The "neurosciences" is now a common 'term to describe several
branches of the biology related to studies of the nervous system.
In fact, this term also character- izes a multidisciplinary
approach to studies of probably the most complicated system of the
most complicated living organisms. Investigation of the central
ner- vous system (CNS) is the most quickly developing branch of the
neurosciences. According to Konorski's definition, the CNS "is
endowed with two principal properties which are referred to as
reactivity and plasticity. Reactivity of the sys- tem is its
capacity to be activated by stimulation of receptive organs;
plasticity is the capacity to change its reactive properties as the
result of successive activa- tions" ([520], p. 7). According to
Kostyuk [535], plastic reorganizations include "any changes in the
efficacy or direction of neuronal connectivity which exceed in
their duration usual synaptic and spike events" ([535], p. 25).
Neuronal plasticity underlies adaptive modifications of various
complexities both in normal CNS, e. g. its development, formation
of memory traces and condi- tioned responses (CRs) , as well as in
brain pathology, e. g. reorganization and compensation of damaged
nervous functions. Clarification of plasticity mecha- nisms is of
great cognitive importance and might be of practical value in the
treatment of mental and especially memory disorders.
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