Plasticity of GABAergic synapses

• Main Author: Alberto Bacci (auth)
• Other Authors: Andrea Barberis (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; structural plasticity; Interneurons; receptor lateral diffusion; inhibitory post-synaptic density; GABAergic synapses; gephyrin; GABAergic plasticity; inhibitory plasticity; GABAA receptors; inhibitory circuits
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Learning and memory are believed to depend on plastic changes of neuronal circuits due to activity-dependent potentiation or depression of specific synapses. During the last two decades, plasticity of brain circuits was hypothesized to mainly rely on the flexibility of glutamatergic excitatory synap...