Current and Future Research
Additional research is needed to obtain a broader understanding of nonsynaptic plasticity. Topics that should be further explored as of January 2010 include:
- Local versus global excitability changes in neuronal networks and maintenance of the memory trace
- Specificity of induction of learning-dependent excitability changes
- Manipulation of learning-dependent excitability changes by pharmaceutical products or genetic mutations and their effects on the memory trace
- Similarities between the molecular mechanisms of synaptic and nonsynaptic plasticity
- Comparison of in vivo patterns of nonsynaptic plasticity with in vitro results
- Alterations in gene expression produced by neural activity
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