Short Term Plasticity

• Chemical synapses dynamically change their efficiency in effecting the post-synaptic neuron.
• This can either increase or decrease the efficiency.
• This change can last for a range of times, but then the synapse reverts back to its original state.
• A good entry to this area is Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity by Zucker and Regehr (2002).
• My understanding is that this can be a change in the chemical soup around a neuron, or just in the efficiency of a synapse.
• That's why it returns to the original state after a while.