What Is the Role of CREB in Determining What Neurons

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Essay

What is the role of CREB in determining what neurons are selected to become engram cells?

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Definitions:

Factorial Experiment

An experimental design technique in which the effects of two or more variables are studied at once by changing them together, rather than one at a time.

Interaction

A situation in statistical analyses where the effect of one variable on an outcome depends on the level of another variable.

Variances

Measures of the spread or dispersion within a set of data points, indicating how much individual observations differ from the average value.

Two-way Factor ANOVA

A statistical analysis technique used to examine the impact of two independent variables on a dependent variable, and it also considers the interaction between the two independent variables.