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Self-Study Exercises

(If you desire to keep a record of your efforts, please type your answers.)

1. Sketch on graph paper the four major types of bursts found in neurons according
to this chapter. (HINT: Single pulses, bursts of about ten pulses for basic
communications and logic, extended bursts for up to a few seconds for STM,
and indefinitely long bursts, or bursts that can be triggered and stopped if and
only if there is an attribute of LTM)
2. List the characteristics of and possible mechanisms for:

(a) STM (HINT: Lasts no more than a few seconds; could be caused by a
shortfall of available internal ions thus resulting in long dendritic pulses;
this would trigger long pulse bursts of regular pulses in the soma)
(b) LTM (HINT: Formed instantly and lasts forever; could be based on quick
LTP, or recursive neurons that cause a low-profile pulse to cycle indefinitely,
or a hybrid of potentiation and recursion)