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What is learning?

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A changed behavioural response to a repeated stimulus

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What is an example of behavioural response?

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Rat doing water-maze

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What has working with bees have shown?

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Learning in in-vertebrates

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Why can bees learn?

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  1. Excess of a million neurons
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What are the types of “simple” learning?

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  1. Habituation
  2. Sensitisation
  3. Associative learning
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What are simple learning?

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Implicit or declarative types of learning

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What has Eric Kandel pioneered the use of?

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Aplysia

Model system for studying molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory

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What was Eric Kandel awarded?

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  1. Nobel prize for Physiology or medicine in 2000

2. Mechanism of synaptic plasticity

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What has been used as an experimental system?

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Common snail

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Why are invertebrates useful as model systems in neurobiology?

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  1. Simple nervous system comprised of several thousand neurons
  2. Neuronal stomata are often large and can be repeatedly identified
  3. Can link physiology of individual neurons to whole-animal behaviour
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What is neuronal somata?

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Have neurons with large cell bodies

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What does leech neuron have?

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Large dendritic branch

Processes extending into nerves

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What will individual ganglion contain?

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Several hundred neurons

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What is possible to identify?

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Same neuron from individual-individual in same location

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How can you confirm the same neuron?

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Characterising it’s properties

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What can you achieve in simpler nervous system?

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Link individual neurons to individual physiological processes

How does it lead to changes in behaviour

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Why is aplysia good?

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  1. Learn about its anatomy and its nervous system
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What does nervous system have?

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Cluster of Ganglia around the esophagus

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What is the size in diameter of cell body in brain

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10 microns in diameter

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How can you identify cells from individuals to individuals?

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Based on relative size, coloration and positions

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How can you differentiate smaller cell bodies?

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Do some injections with electrodes into multiple cells

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What was Kendal able to map out?

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  1. Abnormal ganglion in some detail

2. Started to give names/numbers to individual neurons

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How can you achieve individual identity?

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  1. Recording from neurons

2. Characterising them

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Experiment - sensory neurons in Aplysia

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  1. The experimenter would place electrode in different cells of ganglion and touching body surface with mechanical stimulus to see whether any neurons would respond to touch
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How can AP be fired in the neuron
1. Record neuron in abdominal ganglion | 2. Mechanical stimulus delivered to gill/skin under mantle
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What is the correlation?
As the strength of stimulus increases, the number of AP also increases
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What did functional maps of animals reveal ?
Sensory neurons responsive to touch in part of animal
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What has been determined using electrophysiology?
Connection between neuron and 2 post-synaptic targets
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What does stimulus to L10 neuron give?
Rise to both r15 neuron and L3 neuron
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What do you see in R15?
Depolarisation EPSP
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What do you see in L3 neuron?
Hyperpolarisation
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How can one neuron lead to depolarisation and hyperpolarisation ?
Receptors activated by ACH that can either be Na+ channels or Cl- channels
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Nicotinic receptors
1. Cartoon channels | 2. Responsible for depolarisation
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What has been discovered in C.elegans drosophila?
1. There are ACH cl- channels
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What is learning?
1. Change in behaviour in response to environmental stimulus
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What is the full-withdrawal reflex in Aplysia?
1. Involuntary, defensive reflex | 2. The reflex causes the delicate siphon and gill to be retracted when the animal is disturbed
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Why did Eric Kandel exploit the gill-withdrawal reflex of Aplysia?
1. Study the molecular and cellular mechanism of three types of learning - Habituation - Sensitisation - Associative learning
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What is Habituation?
1. Decrease in behavioural response that occurs during repeated presentation of a stimulus 2. Lessening of a response due to repeated stimulus
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In the context of gill-withdrawal reflex what did Kandal observe?
1. Large contraction of the gill | 2. Able to record this with a device (photo-cell) the size of the contraction observed
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Why is the marine snail Aplysia californica well suited for investigations?
1. Investigations of cellular and molecular basis of behaviour 2. Neuronal circuitry underlying a specific behaviour could be easily determined 3. Individual components of the circuitry could be easily manipulated
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What does the Aplysia nervous system contain?
Approx 20,000 neurons Organised into 9 different Ganglia
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What can the large neurons of Aplysia be easily identified based on?
1. Size 2. Electrical properties 3. Position in the Ganglia
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What does Aplysia have?
1. Rich repertoire of behaviours that can be studied
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What is one of the well-studied behaviours of Aplysia?
1. Gill-withdrawal reflex
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What are the central component of this reflex situated in?
1. Abdominal Ganglia
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What has components of the GWR circuitry being mapped able to show?
1. Contribution of various components determined
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What does GWR circuitry undergo?
1. Associative and non-associative learning
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What was the several different preparation of Apylasia?
1. Intact animal 2. Semi-intact preparation 3. Reconstitution of major components of neural circuitry
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What can changes in behaviour be?
1. Long term | 2. Short term
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Long term changes in habituation
Involved structural changes in the nervous system
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LTP
Increase in number of dendritic spine
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LTD
Decrease in number of dendritic spine
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Experiment done on individual animals
1. Ganglia recorded from 2. Changes are observed 3. Ganglia taken out and fixed 4. Sectioned and looked down at microscope
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What does more recent research indicate?
1. Long term habituation also involves post-synaptic mechanism
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What are the changes that occur in short term habituation due to?
Metabolic nature
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Hebbs postulate - metabolic changes
Change in activity of proteins at the synapse
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What is sensitisation?
1. Enhancement of a reflex response by the introduction of a strong or noxious stimuli
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Sensitisation can be short term or long term depending on what?
1. Duration/magnitude of sensitising stimulus
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