Cerebellar synaptic plasticity. Relation to learning versus neural activity.
Cerebellar synaptic plasticity. Relation to learning versus neural activity.
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小脑突触可塑性。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1991.tb25927.x
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发表时间:
1991
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Anderson,BJ
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作者:
Greenough,WT;Anderson,BJ
The title of this volume, Activity-Driven CNS Changes in Learning and Development, has led us to emphasize what events are actually necessary and sufficient to initiate functional (and structural) change in the nervous system. We believe that there is substantial evidence that activity, per se, is not invariably the critical factor for the induction of a change in functional organization, although it appears to be sufficient to bring about changes in the metabolic support of highly active regions in some cases. Rather, there appears to be some very specific requirement for learning, or some other change in the pattern of neural activity, to drive the CNS to reorganize itself. This requirement must ultimately be expressed at the cellular level in a sequence of steps leading to changes in functional organization. Although the steps may well be understood ultimately in terms of the molecular events that underlie the cellular change, our goal is to understand this reorganization from the perspective of behavior. We seek to know whether the behavioral demands placed upon a subject can determine the neural response and if so how. As discussed later in this article, we have seen structural changes in the cerebellum following learning. As a result, we are curious as to how these changes come about, and how they might fit in the overall output of the cerebellar cortex.Both experimental results and theory predict that the cerebellar cortex performs a plastic role in behavioral adaptation. As FIGURE 1 shows, there are two major excitatory informational inputs, both arising from brainstem and spinal loci, and a single output neuron, the Purkinje cell.'Climbing fibers, which originate largely or exclusively from the inferior olive, carry information from the somatosensory, vestibular, visual, and to a lesser extent auditory modalities. Mossy fibers arise from various locations in the brainstem and spinal cord and also carry sensory input, such that there is no simple, straightforward distinction with regard to the types of information the two affer., t systems convey. On occasion the same Purkinje cell may be activated by both climbing fiber and parallel fiber input from the same peripheral location.'-'In both systems the input is modulated by descending projections from the forebrain. Climbing fibers terminate directly upon Purkinje cells, each Purkinje cell receiving multiple synaptic