behavior/neurological
• mutants display severe impairment in the Morris water maze test and show no improvement in performance over a training period of 8 days; ater 24 hours mutants spend less time in the water where the platform had been in the previous trials compared to wild type controls
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nervous system
• only transient depression of field excitatory postsynaptic potentials is observed in mutants in response to low frequency stimulation, while the controls show a long-lasting depression
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• long term potentiation is absent in hippocampal slices from mutants
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• long term depotentiation can not be induced in mutants
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