A New Locus for Synaptic Plasticity in Cerebellar Circuits

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Martha W. Bagnall

Sascha du Lac

چکیده

Experimental and computational analyses of cerebellar function indicate that excitatory synapses onto deep nucleus neurons are likely to be a critical site of plasticity during motor learning. In this issue of Neuron, Pugh and Raman report that unconventional stimulus protocols can drive synaptic plasticity in the deep cerebellar nuclei.

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