August 06, 2019
How brain cells pick which connections to keep
… MIT neuroscientists have identified the gene and protein, CPG15, that allows experience to tap a synapse as a keeper. … made in normal mice and ones engineered to lack CPG15, they were able to show that the protein is required in … permanent after about four weeks. Mice engineered to lack CPG15 only exhibit one behavioral deficiency: They learn …