"Entertained by my own EIMC" <decoy from mindyaown.biz> wrote in message
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> "Christian Wilms" <usenet02 from out-of-phase.de> wrote in message
> news:1iifgvx.1y7rwd71anserqN%usenet02 from out-of-phase.de...>>> I think in general short-term plasticity refers to changes lasting
>> seconds and minutes, while long-term refers to changes lasting hours
>> (though 30 minutes is commonly considered to be long-enough-term for
>> experimental purposes ;)
>> That a brainscientist (presumably) can be so narrow-minded as to limit his
> definition of LTP to "hours" is *almost* unbelievable, to me.
>What made me react - a bit too rapidly - was this (interest and concern of
mine):
The *truly long-term* consequences of LTP (and the kinds of learning or
conditioning that it allows) do obviously underpin the insidious dynamic
neural states ("primal pain" or CURSES) that drive *not just* symptoms that
are so easily recognized as being caused by a conditioned-in aftereffect of
some specific predicament that a person has been (is no longer) in, that
they have come to be called "PTSD(s)" *but do also* underpin symptoms of
anything from the most sophisticated adaptive (in some cases not just
socially accepted but idolized) forms of 'AE_VASIVE ("Ambiadvantageously
Evolved" and learned/developed) behavior' [or more conventionally, but less
precisely, put: "successful neurotic defenses"] to the most bizarre and
antisocial symptoms of overloaded and broken-down neural means of coping
with CURSES.
[It is highly unrealistic to expect that primal pain (or CURSES) can be
cleanly or neutrally contained within a brain. Instead, on fundamental
evolutionary ('naturally selective') and neurophysiological grounds,
potentially self-defeating pain/fear/distress-motivating excitatory signals
are inevitably not just getting blocked (or "gated") but also tending to get
*rerouted* to co-motivate much of people's focusing (paying) of more or less
adaptive "actentions" {"actention"=either or both visceromotor,
'sceletomotor', and "mental" (intellectual or cognitive) activities - or
ditto preoccupations}.]