Associative long-term depression in the hippocampus induced by hebbian covariance (original) (raw)
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A BRIEF, high-frequency activation of excitatory synapses in the hippocampus produces a long-lasting increase in synaptic strengths called long-term potentiation (LTP)1. A test input, which by itself does not have a long-lasting effect on synaptic strengths, can be potentiated through association when it is activated at the same time as a separate conditioning input2–4.Neural network modelling studies have also predicted that synaptic strengths should be weakened when test and conditioning inputs are anti-correlated5–8. Evidence for such heterosynaptic depression in the hippocampus has been found for inputs that are inactive2,9 or weakly active3 during the stimulation of a conditioning input, but this depression does not depend on any pattern of test input activity and does not seem to last as long as LTP. We report here an associative long-term depression (LTD) in field CA1 that is produced when a low-frequency test input is negatively correlated in time with a high-frequency conditioning input. LTD of synaptic strength is also produced by activating presynaptic terminals while a postsy-naptic neuron is hyperpolarized. This confirms theoretical predictions8 that the mechanism for associative LTD is homosynaptic and follows a hebbian covariance rule7.
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- Patric K. Stanton
Present address: Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1410 Pelham Parkway South, Bronx, New York, 10461, USA - Terrence J. Sejnowski
Present address: Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California, 92037 - Terrence J. Sejnowski
Present address: Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, USA
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Stanton, P., Sejnowski, T. Associative long-term depression in the hippocampus induced by hebbian covariance.Nature 339, 215–218 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/339215a0
- Received: 12 December 1988
- Accepted: 07 April 1989
- Issue Date: 18 May 1989
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/339215a0
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