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echo: evolution
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from: Tim Tyler
date: 2004-10-03 22:27:00
subject: Re: physical basis of mem

PerlTCL  wrote or quoted:

> What is the physical basis of memory (human brain)? Can someone give a
> brief review or progress so far. Thanks.

Synapse formation, synapse elimination, synapse modification - probably 
mostly the latter.

``How Do We Learn and Remember?''

 - http://www.brainscience.brown.edu/research/6questions/how_do_we_learn.html

The main remaining non-synaptic theory is known as "volume learning" - 
which invokes nitric oxide.
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