What Is the Relationship Between Long-Term Potentiation and Memory

question 96

Multiple Choice

What is the relationship between long-term potentiation and memory?

• A) Memory helps strengthen neurons, which leads to long-term potentiation.
• B) Long-term potentiation leads to a deficit of memory, which is why the substances that lead to long-term potentiation should not be used recreationally for an extended period of time.
• C) Memory and long-term potentiation have no direct relationship, but they are both associated with the strengthening of the amygdala and the hypothalamic cortex.
• D) As long-term potentiation increases, we remember the memories associated with those neurons more easily.

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