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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 11.
Published in final edited form as: CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2015;14(6):731–737. doi: 10.2174/1871527314666150529145531

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Memory formation is dependent on structural and functional synaptic plasticty. Following learning or LTP induction, NMDA receptor activation initiates actin polymerization, or enlongation, which drives dendritic spine enlargement and stablization.