“…Since its introduction, quantal analysis and its derivatives, such as coefficient of variation ( CV ) and minimal stimulation, have been used widely to investigate whether a change in neurotransmitter release accompanies long-term changes in synaptic strength. These methods were used in the first studies that proposed a presynaptic expression locus of LTP (at hippocampal mossy fiber-CA3 synapses) (Malinow and Tsien, 1990; Hirata et al, 1991), and have been subsequently employed to support a presynaptic expression locus during long-term plasticity in diverse brain regions which include hippocampal mossy fiber-interneuron synapses (Pelkey et al, 2005), hippocampal GABAergic synapses (Laezza et al, 1999), the amygdala (Tsvetkov et al, 2002; Fourcaudot et al, 2008), the neocortex (Torii et al, 1997; Sjöström et al, 2003, 2004; Huang et al, 2008a; Sarihi et al, 2012), striatum (Choi and Lovinger, 1997a), ventral tegmental area (VTA) (Pan et al, 2008) and cerebellum (Maejima et al, 2001). …”