Tim Bliss
Tim Bliss
Time Bliss was born in England in 1940 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. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Time Bliss is interested in the neural basis of learning and memory, with particular reference to the mechanisms and function of long-term potentiation in the hippocampus. 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.
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