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Terje Lømo

A man with short gray hair and glasses wears a light yellow shirt against a neutral background.

Norwegian neurophysiologist who, as a graduate student in Per Andersen's lab in Oslo in 1966, discovered that brief high-frequency stimulation of the perforant path produced a lasting increase in synaptic response in the rabbit hippocampus. The phenomenon, named long-term potentiation in a 1973 paper with Tim Bliss, became the dominant model for the cellular basis of memory.

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