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NMDA receptors: Substrates or modulators of memory formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

David L. Walker
Affiliation:
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06508 walker@biomed.med.yale.edu
Paul E. Gold
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22901 peg@virginia.edu

Abstract

We agree with Shors & Matzel's general hypothesis that the proposed link between NMDA-dependent LTP and memory is weak. They suggest that NMDA-dependent LTP is important to arousal or attentional processes which influence learning in an anterograde manner. However, current evidence is also consistent with the view that NMDA receptors modulate memory consolidation retroactively, as occurs in several other receptor classes.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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