Brain’s ‘Storehouse’ for Memory Molecules Identified
September 27, 2004 | Source: KurzweilAI
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and Brown University have pinpointed the molecular storehouse that supplies the neurotransmitter receptor proteins used for learning-related changes in the brain.
Their finding constitutes an important step toward understanding the machinery by which neurons alter their connections to establish preferred signaling pathways in the process of laying down new memories. Understanding such machinery could also offer clues to how it might degenerate in aging and disease to degrade learning and memory