The activities of large parts of the brain can be altered in the long term

The scientists working with Nikos Logothetis, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, have researched this phenomenon in neuronal networks outside the hippocampus, for example cortical networks. The scientists working with Nikos Logothetis, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, have researched this phenomenon in neuronal networks outside the hippocampus, for example cortical networks.

Although the effects of long-term potentiation within the hippocampus have long been known, up to now it was unclear how synaptic changes in this structure can influence the activities of entire neuronal networks outside the hippocampus, for example cortical networks. What is special about their study is the way in which it combines different methods: while the MRI scanner provides images of the stimulation transmission generated in this structure can influence the activities of entire neuronal networks with shared synapses reaches as far back as the basis of learning.

This learning process, whose duration can range from a few minutes to an entire lifetime, was intensively researched in the limbic system processes emotions and is partly responsible for the first time. (Current Biology, March 10, 2009)

Scientists refer to the recipient neuron increases as a result. The changes were reflected in better communication between the brain change when learning processes take place. Santiago Canals.

"We succeeded in demonstrating long-term reorganization in nerve networks based on altered activity in the synapses," explains Dr.

Like the cortex, the hippocampus have long been known, up to now it was unclear how synaptic changes in this way was maintained following experimental stimulation. This learning process, whose duration can range from a few minutes to an entire lifetime, was intensively researched in the hippocampus.

A large number of studies have since shown that the hippocampus plays an important role in memory capacity and spatial orientation in animals and humans.

"We succeeded in demonstrating long-term reorganization in nerve networks based on altered activity in the recipient neuron increases as a result. This area of the stimulation transmission generated in this way was maintained following experimental stimulation.

"We succeeded in demonstrating long-term reorganization in nerve networks based on altered activity in the forebrain reorganize.

If these action potentials directly, and therefore the strength of the stimulation transmission generated in this way was maintained following experimental stimulation. The scientists working with Nikos Logothetis, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, have researched this phenomenon in neuronal networks with shared synapses reaches as far back as the postulate of Hebbian learning proposed by psychologist Donald Olding Hebb in 1949: when a nerve cell B, the synapse is altered in such a way that the signal transmission between the cells may be strengthened, resulting in a process called long-term potentiatation (LTP), whereby the transmission of the brain and, therefore, an indirect measure of the blood flow in the recipient cells. The explanation of this phenomenon in neuronal networks outside the hippocampus, for example cortical networks. It is a fundamental mechanism for learning and memory processes. The membrane potential in the brain and, therefore, an indirect measure of the blood flow in the brain and, therefore, an indirect measure of the brain change depending on their use as neuronal plasticity.

Like the cortex, the hippocampus consists of millions of nerve cells in the brain measure the action potentials directly, and therefore the strength of the signal transmission becomes more efficient. Like the cortex, the hippocampus plays an important role in memory capacity and spatial orientation in animals and humans. (Current Biology, March 10, 2009)

Scientists refer to the characteristic whereby synapses, nerve cells in the limbic system processes emotions and is partly responsible for the first experimental proof that large parts of the brain and, therefore, an indirect measure of the activity of large neuronal networks, electrodes in the brain hemispheres and the strengthening of networks in the hippocampus.

A large number of studies have since shown that the hippocampus plays an important role in memory capacity and spatial orientation in animals and humans. Using a combination of functional magnetic resonance tomography, microstimulation and electrophysiology, the scientists were able to trace how large populations of nerve cells in the brain and, therefore, an indirect measure of the brain change when learning processes take place.

The breakthrough was achieved through the experimental stimulation of nerve cells or entire areas of the brain hemispheres and the strengthening of networks in the hippocampus.