Role of tonic inhibition in associative reward conditioning in Lymnaea

Changes in the strength of excitatory synaptic connections are known to underlie associative memory formation in the molluscan nervous system but less is known about the role of synaptic inhibition. Tonic or maintained synaptic inhibition has an important function in controlling the Lymnaea feeding...

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Main Authors: Vincenzo Marra, Ildikó Kemenes, Dimitris Vavoulis, Jianfeng Feng, Michael O'Shea, Paul R Benjamin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00161/full