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learning is…

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the acquisition of new knowledge

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memory is…

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the retention of learned knowledge

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memory is stored as a…

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neural trace (memory must involve changes in connections between neurones)

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recall is…

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reactivation of the trace

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forms of memory

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declarative and procedural

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declarative

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  • records of facts and events
  • accessible to consciousness, easy to forget
  • describe what we know and what we remember about things that have happened to us
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procedural

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  • learned skills and behaviours
  • involved learning a motor response in association with a sensory input
  • inaccessible to consciousness, but never forget
  • cant verbalise is e.g riding a bike
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time scale of memory can be

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short term (STM) - verbal or visuospatial
ling term (LTM)

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example of verbal and visuospatial STM

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verbal - memory of someones phone number
visuospatial - jigsaw puzzle (remembering what piece you need and where it is)

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example of LTM

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visual - people faces
auditory - music

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non associative learning in procedural memory:
habituation=

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learn to ignore
e.g people hear planes going over head who live near to airport and they learn to ignore the sound

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sensitisation=

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learn to intensify
stimuli that normally wouldnt evoke a response suddenly becomes more powerful and causes you to react e.g home alone and you hear a noise

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associative learning in procedural memory:
classical conditioning=

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process by which a neural stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus
e.g. bell –> food –> salivation
bell –> salivation

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instrumental conditioning=

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process by which a response is gradually learned via reinforcement or punishment
e.g we learn that a behavior produces a particular consequence
if positive –> repeat behavior
if negative –> do no repeat behavior

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why are invertebrates used in procedural learning experiments

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  • simple learning circuits
  • big cells - easy to identify + isolate
  • small systems
  • simple genetics
  • easy to keep alive
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which marine invertebrate is mainly used in procedural memory experiments

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sea slug aplysia californica

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why are aplysia used

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  • simple nervous system
  • gill withdrawal reflex
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habituation in aplysia

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decrease over time in response to repeated stimulus that lacks meaning

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sensitisation in aplysia

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exaggeration in response to normal stimuli after strong stimulus

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the gill withdrawal reflex

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when the water is squirted onto the siphon and detects touch the siphon and gill contract

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neuronal circuitry of the gill withdrawal reflex

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siphon skin –> sensory neurone (24) –> synapse –> motor neurone (6) –> gill muscle

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how does the gill withdrawal reflex show habituation

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repeated stimulation of the siphon skin leads to progressively less contraction of the gill

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where is the locus if the habituation

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the SN - MN synapse.
EPSPs decline as the SN is repeatedly stimulated

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this is a form of…

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homosynaptic depression

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is it a pre or post synaptic effect
pre as there is fewer quanta (of glutamate) release per AP because there is less calcium entry per AP
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how does the gill withdrawal reflex show sensitisation
an electrical shock to the head or tail sensitises the aplysia and causes a squirt of water to cause a much bigger response (withdrawal of the gill)
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how does the sensitisation occur
when the shock arrives at the head it activates the L29 interneuron that synapses on to the sensory neuron
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what is released from L29
serotonin which causes more calcium to enter per AP and thus more quanta of glutamate per AP this causes an increases response
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what is this called
heterosynaptic facilitation (as there is an extra synapse)
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presynaptic mechanisms involved in sensitisation: 5-HT receptor -
is G protein coupled and metabotropic which activates cAMP as second messenger
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cAMP activates two kinases...
PKA and PKC which act to enhance release of transmitter
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how does PKA work
phosphorylates and closes K+ channel this stops potassium leaving the cell whih will keep positive charges in the cell and keep is depolarised for longer broadening the AP, this causes more calcium to enter and more quanta of glutamate per AP
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how to PKC work
acts directly on vesicle release mechanism and causes enhances transmitter release
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metabotropic receptor (G protein coupled) examples
ACh muscarinic glutamate metabotropic GABAb 5HT DA NE
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structure of metabotropic receptors
7 membrane spanning alpha helices
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Gs and Gi do what
Gs - stimulates effector protein Gi - inhibits effector protein
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two effector systems of metabotropic receptors
G protein gates ion channels (e.g GABAb couples to K+ channels) G protein activates enzymes (2nd messenger cascade) (e.g NEbeta receptor activates Gs which increases cAMP, activating PKA)
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alzheimers - loss and damage to synapses
amyloid beta reduces number and plasticity of synapses modifies tau proteins impair synaptic vesicle release and postsynaptic receptor insertion
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associative learning =
the forming of associations between two events
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classical conditioning =
learning of association between unconditional stimulus (US) (which evokes a response without training) which is predicted by a conditional stimulus (CS) (which does not normally evoke a response)
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before conditioning: CS (bell) ----> no response (no salivation) US (meat) ----> response (salivation) conditioning: CS + US (bell, then meat) ----> response (dribble) after conditioning?
CS (bell) ----> response (drool)
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associative learning in aplysia (conditioning)
before: - CS (siphon stim) - no response - US (shock to tail) - response during: - CS + US -> response after: - CS -> response
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presynaptic facilitation after classical conditioning
the US (tail shock) activates interneurons (e.g L29) which release 5-HT onto the SN
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activity dependent facilitation
if the CS (siphon touch) precedes the US, the 5-HT release elicits even stronger presynaptic facilitation
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coincidence detection in presynaptic mechanisms (classical conditioning)
1) weak CS does not initiate response from MN on its own, but it does elicit APs which cause calcium to enter presynaptic terminal of SN 2) calcium activates adenylyl cyclase which acts as a coincidence detector which detects the coincidence of the weak activation of the presynaptic terminal and then the strong activation from the US. 3) strong US causes L29 to release 5-HT onto presynaptic terminal of SN, activation the G protein associated with the 5-HT receptor 4) the G protein further activates the primed adenylyl cyclase 5) the super activated adenylyl cyclase activates cAMP more strongly which activates PKA and PKC 6) kinases have the same effects as in the sensitisation mechanism
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post synaptic mechanisms in classical conditioning: 1) pairing of the CS and the US leads to strong depolarisation of the...
motor neuron
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the SN releases ________ into the MN
glutamate
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the postsynaptic NMDA receptor in the presence of strong depolarisation is...
unblocked (Mg ion is removed) and calcium enters the postsynaptic MN
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calcium activates a retrograde messenger system that signals the pre synaptic cell to release more transmitter calcium also activates CAMK II that enhances non-NMDA receptor
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how can classical conditioning phenomenon be mimicked
by applying 5-HT to SN (representing the strong US) just after the SN fires APs (representing the weak activity of the CS)
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after training the weak CS will now elicit a response greater and longer term than from
sensitisation
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this is due to
modification of pre synaptic proteins and increased protein synthesis and modification of post synaptic proteins
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differences between sensitisation and conditioning
- conditioning causes longer lasting and stronger enhancement of withdrawal reflex (via the SN-MN) than short term sensitisation does. - conditioning requires sequential activation of the SN by the CS and then the US - conditioning requires activity of both the SN and the MN - both conditioning and sensitisation utilise the same route to increase transmitter release (cAMP activated phosphorylation)
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unpaired stimuli
- siphon touch and tail shock may be close in time but the former does not reliably predict the other - not only is there no sensitisation but depression may occur (EPSP declines over time)
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paired stimuli
- siphon touch and tail shock are close in time, and the former reliably predicts the latter - EPSP response is enhanced
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time scale of habituation (short term)
decrease in response following ~10 stimuli delivered every minute response recovers after a rest period of several minutes to 1 hour
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time scale of habituation (long term)
four sessions of stimulation, at intervals of several hours to 1 day, leads to habituation response lasting up to 3 weeks can lead to a decrease in number of synaptic contacts between SN and MN (from 90% of SNs with detectable connections to 30%)
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mechanisms of short term sensitisation
occurs after a single brief training session - activity dependent presynaptic facilitation which is mediated by the action of PKA - serotonin binding to its receptor activates G protein which activates cAMP which causes activation of PKA which phosphorylates the potassium channel and theres an increase in depolarization of the membrane which causes an increase in calcium into the cell and an activation of PKC which causes enhanced neurotransmission
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intermediate term sensitisation
same set of mechanisms that happen in classical conditioning longer application of 5-HT or paired stimulation as in conditioning you can have effects that last for hours requires both presynaptic and postsynaptic protein modifications PKA acts on increasing calcium which activates CAMK and PKC those activations then cause an increase depolarisation on the post synaptic side which causes unblocking of the NMDA receptor and an increase of calcium into the postsynaptic cell which activates the non-NMDA receptor and strengthens the effectiveness of these receptors also leads to insertion of new postsynaptic receptors
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long term sensitisation
multiple training sessions spaces over several days PKA migrates to the nucleus and activates a cAMP response element binding protein this activates a gene transcription pathway leading growth of the synapse starts with persistent PKA which activates transcriptional factors, creating proteins which cause increase insertion of receptors in the postsynaptic membrane and increase response to an incoming stimulus in the presynaptic neurone if you block protein synthesis in aplysia you don't get long term sensitisation but still get short term sensitisation
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