September 29, 2016
Scientists identify neurons devoted to social memory
… found in a region of the hippocampus known as the ventral CA1, store “social memories” that help shape the mice’s … test mouse by either inhibiting or activating the ventral CA1 cells,” says Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of … social memories may be stored in the hippocampus’ ventral CA1, in part because previous studies have suggested that …