Explain whether any learning or memory would be possible without neural plasticity ?
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To be able to learn something, you have to be able to recall it. To recall information, there must be synaptic changes occuring to accomodate new info by forming a neural representation of the info. So, learning and memory requires LTP and LTD to occur, which is when the structure of the synapse is changed. This is done through bushier dendrites, the release of more neurotransmitter from the presynaptic neuron, and more receptor sites on the postsynaptic neuron through the release of more neurotransmitter and bushier dendrites. This is an example of LTP (and occurs when the presynaptic and postsynaptic neuron fires simultaneously). Another example of learning and memory occuring is LTD, where unused synapses are pruned. These changes can only occur through neural plasticity. Neural plasticity is the ability of neurons to change their structure in response to experience. Under this, there is synpatic plasticity, which is the ability of the synapse to change structure in response to experience/newly learned information. Therefore, if there is no neural plasticity, then LTP and LTD cannot occur, which then means learning and memory cannot occur.
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