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Neuroscientists discover a molecular mechanism that allows memories to form

October 05, 2020
… and retrieval of memories epigenetics chromatin engram hippocampus … which appears today in Nature Neuroscience . Above: The hippocampus is the large yellow structure near the top. Green … Epigenomic control Engram cells are found in the hippocampus as well as other parts of the brain. Many recent …

Importance to memory of replay and sleep

… that memories are replayed in a brain region called the hippocampus during sleep in the 1990s. He noticed that a … phase of sleep. In 2007, the lab also reported that the hippocampus was not alone in generating replay during sleep: … show similar activity in the visual cortex (CTX) as in the hippocampus (HP). By 2006, though, Wilson’s lab had made the …

Fundamental questions find advanced answers, approaches at Fall Symposium

October 18, 2019
… world discuss "Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Cognition" hippocampus cortex visual system multiphoton microscopy … with meaning. The hypothalamus, for instance, helps the hippocampus integrate different dimensions of novelty with … via circuit connections with the separate parts of the hippocampus that integrate that kind of information in  …

The neural circuits of linked brain waves

September 27, 2017
… that generates brain waves carrying spatial information hippocampus ripples replay spatial memory … Tonegawa’s lab investigated how ripple bursts in the hippocampus, a brain region critical for spatial learning and … is awake, but not when asleep. When another region of the hippocampus, called CA3, was inhibited, ripples and replay …

Mark Bear

… this question have been focused on the visual cortex and hippocampus. The visual cortex is a site of robust … clinical applications for the treatment of amblyopia. The hippocampus is a cortical structure that is critical to forms … and memory. The simple cellular architecture of the hippocampus also makes it amenable to electrophysiological …
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