Memories in Just a Few Brain Cells!

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Researchers at RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics, with help from Stanford's optogenetics guru Karl Deisseroth, have shown that individual memories reside in a very small number of brain cells. Activating just a few cells responsible for holding onto specific memories can bring back rather complex recollections, a finding that may help lead to interventional treatments for conditions like post traumatic stress disorder.

Of course, this experiment involved mice not men, so who knows what will be learned when they start poking around in people's brains. But, now at least, we all have an excuse for forgetting that birthday or anniversary..."Sorry, honey, killed that particular brain cell back when we were drinking the other night...."

 

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Of course, this experiment involved mice not men, so who knows what will be learned when they start poking around in people's brains. But, now at least, we all have an excuse for forgetting that birthday or anniversary..."Sorry, honey, killed that particular brain cell back when we were drinking the other night...."

I'd love to know how they got PTSD in mice. . . .

 

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I'd love to know how they got PTSD in mice. . . .

Horrible things... Unmentionable things...

 

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A room full of snap traps going off in sequence!

With a cat on the roof!

And . . . and . . . no peanut butter!