More than half of hippocampal synapses vanish, yet mouse memories remain intact
How do we remember the distant past? For decades, scientists have believed synaptic potentiation—the adaptive strengthening of our brain's cellular connections—to be the key to memory retention. Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and collaborators including the…
How do we remember the distant past? For decades, scientists have believed synaptic potentiation—the adaptive strengthening of our brain's cellular connections—to be the key to memory retention. Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and T... [6550 chars]