long-term potentiation

Three UK neuroscientists jointly win the €1 million European Brain Prize for their work on memory.

Mice with human brain cells showed enhanced synaptic plasticity and learning, suggesting glia may be key to our cognitive prowess.
 

What does a normally aging brain look like? Are diseases of aging such as Alzheimer’s inevitable?

Long-term potentiation (LTP), discovered in the 1970s, was later shown to be the molecular basis of memory.