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Secret of synapse specificity

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How does the brain organize all of the information stored in memory? On the basis of a state-of-the-art imaging study of neuronal activity in real time, the answer seems to be, through specificity in space and time.

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Figure 1: Synapse-specific long-term potentiation (LTP).

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  1. Scott M. Thompson and Hayley A. Mattison are in the Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. sthom003@umaryland.edu,

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Thompson, S., Mattison, H. Secret of synapse specificity. Nature 458, 296–297 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/458296a

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