[MURG] Non-invasive 3-D Scanning

[Joseph J. Strout]

At 12:45 AM +0800 12/16/03, Major wrote:

>Are you sure about that? Isn't LTP (and therefore at least a large
>chunk of what makes you "you") in the chemistry inside the neuron?

I don't believe that LTP makes me "me" -- it forms and fades away on 
the order of minutes to hours.  I'm quite willing to accept a few 
hours of retrograde amnesia (head trauma can cause that even today). 
Long-term memory is almost certainly encoded in structural changes, 
e.g. the formation of new synapses and withdrawal of old ones.

Cheers,
- Joe

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