Changes in neuronal excitability serve as a mechanism of long-term memory for operant conditioning.

abstract

• Learning can lead to changes in the intrinsic excitability of neurons. However, the extent to which these changes persist and the role they have in the expression of memory remain unclear. We found that in vitro analogs of operant conditioning produced a long-term (24 h) increase in the excitability of an identified neuron (B51) that is critical for the expression of feeding in Aplysia. This increase in excitability, which was cAMP dependent, contributed to the associative modification of the feeding circuitry, providing a mechanism for long-term memory.

authors

• Baxter, Douglas

published proceedings

• Nat Neurosci

author list (cited authors)

• Mozzachiodi, R., Lorenzetti, F. D., Baxter, D. A., & Byrne, J. H.

citation count

• 70

complete list of authors

• Mozzachiodi, Riccardo||Lorenzetti, Fred D||Baxter, Douglas A||Byrne, John H

publication date

• October 2008

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Nature Neuroscience  Journal

keywords

• 8-Bromo Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate
• Animals
• Aplysia
• Behavior, Animal
• Conditioning, Operant
• Cyclic AMP
• Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
• Electric Stimulation
• Food Preferences
• Functional Laterality
• Ganglia, Invertebrate
• In Vitro Techniques
• Membrane Potentials
• Memory
• Neurons
• Patch-Clamp Techniques
• Peripheral Nerves
• Statistics, Nonparametric
• Thionucleotides

PubMed Central ID

• 18776897

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1038/nn.2184

start page

• 1146

end page

• 1148

volume

• 11

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2184