Scientists see new memory forming in the brain


	Scientists see new memory forming in the brain

JohnWaterman

7-25-2007 11:34 AM

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7-25-2007 2:08 PM

medisland

Wow.

7-25-2007 2:56 PM

BitDrifter

"Wow" Just begins to describe it, great clip.

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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2133984,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=18">Scientists have witnessed a new memory being formed for the first time, a breakthrough they believe will pave the way to map memories across the brain</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2133984,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=18"><P>High-resolution images captured by the team show how connections between neighbouring brain cells changed when a memory was laid down.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2133984,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=18"><P>A team led by Gary Lynch, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Irvine, found that the memory formed when a rat learned to navigate a maze was written in the brain by changes to 10,000 synapses, the microscopic connections that allow nerve cells in the brain to talk to each other.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2133984,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=18"><P>"The larger consequence is that now we can see these, the route is open for us to map where memories are located," he said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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