Renowned British neurophysiologist, Professor Tim Bliss presents the 14th Kenneth Myer Lecture, Mechanisms of Memory.
In his presentation, he touches on the understanding of cellular mechanisms and how they work with our memories, memory enhancing drugs for the treatment of memory disorders, and how recent experiments have led to our current understanding of the molecular machinery of memory. Professor Tim Bliss is the world leader in long term potentiation (LTP), long term memory and brain plasticity.
Professor Tim Bliss was born in England and gained his PhD at McGill University in Canada. In 1967 he joined the MRC National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, London, where he was Head of the Division of Neurophysiology from 1988 till 2006. His work with Terje Lømo in Per Andersen's laboratory at the University of Oslo in the late 1960's established the phenomenon of long-term potentiation (LTP) as the dominant synaptic model of how the mammalian brain stores memories. Since then he has worked on many aspects of LTP, including presynaptic mechanisms responsible for the persistent increase in synaptic efficacy that characterizes LTP, and the relationship between synaptic plasticity and memory. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He shared the Bristol Myers Squibb award for Neuroscience with Eric Kandel in 1991.
Due to the length of this lecture, it has been split into 5 parts. Part 1 can be viewed in the player below. Please visit the Florey YouTube Channel to view the remaining 4 parts, and to browse our other lectures.
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