Long-term potentiation (LTP) is defined as a long-lasting increase in the magnitude of the synaptic response of a neuron following a short train of high-frequency afferent stimulation or similar ...

Though there are various types of neuronal plasticity, long-term potentiation (LTP) is the most studied one, especially in the hippocampus (brain region associated with learning and memory).

Three decades and 6,000 papers since the term was first coined, scientists are still debating the mechanisms of long-term potentiation (LTP). 1 Defined in 1973 as an increase in synaptic strength ...

The most widely accepted mechanism is stimulus-induced long-term potentiation of synaptic activity; put simply, this means that neuronal connections become stronger after repeated stimulation over a ...

Long-term potentiation increases the ability of the relevant synapses to communicate, while long-term depression of synaptic transmission reduces the activity of certain synapses in the hippocampus.