What cellular processes make the brain plastic?
Long-term potentiation
long-lasting increases in postsynaptic responsiveness to weak temporally coincident stimulation of separate inputs
Neuromodulation by peptidergic cells
a critical dependence of synaptogenesis on the local circuit signaling of neuromodulatory cells and their cognate receptors
Astrocytic secretion of synaptogenic molecules
direct selective control of synapse formation and elimination during development and in the mature adult brain
