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How the Construction Site of Long Term Memory Gets Built in the Brain - Neuroscience News

How the Construction Site of Long Term Memory Gets Built in the Brain - Neuroscience News

How the Construction Site of Long Term Memory Gets Built in the Brain - Neuroscience News
Feb 06, 2023 51 secs

Summary: Study identifies a set of proteins that undergo experience-dependent changes while forming both short-term and long-term memories.

Researchers at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology have discovered that these cellular building materials — in this case, sets of proteins — undergo experience-dependent changes while forming short- and long-term memories.

A paper on the discovery by a team of Wertheim UF Scripps Institute scientists was published on Jan. 5 in eNeuro, an open-access journal of the Society for Neuroscience.

A species of sea slug called Aplysia (bottom) squirts a purple ink to ward off predators in this close-up view by Wertheim UF Scripps Institute scientists.

Puthanveettil said how the brain accomplishes this has been poorly understood, and even now, it will take much more research to fully decipher the cellular building blocks that form memory.

The material that moves between soma and synapse includes numerous proteins, which are crucial workhorses that drive many of the processes and chemical reactions that allow human cells to function and carry out tasks.

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