The Brain May Use Only 20 Percent of Its Memory-Forming Neurons

April 20, 2007 | Source: http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0BF4BCC9-E7F2-99DF-3FBDF4769A628403

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and The Hospital for Sick Children have found that the pace at which a brain cell activates a key protein, CREB (a transcription factor that typically increases the production of other proteins in cells) may influence its role in memory formation — a finding that could lead to new Alzheimer therapies