Journal
NEUROSCIENTIST
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages 513-524Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1073858404267048
Keywords
olfaction; plasticity; memory; learning; perception
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD033402] Funding Source: Medline
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We are rapidly advancing toward an understanding of the molecular events underlying odor transduction, mechanisms of spatiotemporal central odor processing, and neural correlates of olfactory perception and cognition. A thread running through each of these broad components that define olfaction appears to be their dynamic nature. How odors are processed, at both the behavioral and neural level, is heavily dependent on past experience, current environmental context, and internal state. The neural plasticity that allows this dynamic processing is expressed nearly ubiquitously in the olfactory pathway, from olfactory receptor neurons to the higher-order cortex, and includes mechanisms ranging from changes in membrane excitability to changes in synaptic efficacy to neurogenesis and apoptosis. This review will describe recent findings regarding plasticity in the mammalian olfactory system that are believed to have general relevance for understanding the neurobiology of memory.
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