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    How Memories Form and Fade

    August 25, 2019, Categories  Biology/Biotechnology, Health/Medical

    colorful diagrams of neurons
    Diagrams of neural activity in the hippocampus, recorded from a mouse as it learned about new surroundings. Colors correspond to unique locations within the new place. Over time and continued exposure to the arena, the mouse forms stable memories by recruiting teams of neurons to encode for the location.Credit: Caltech


    Strong memories are encoded by teams of neurons working together in synchrony. Why is it that you can remember the name of your childhood best friend that you haven’t seen in years yet easily forget the name of a person you just met a moment ago? In other words, why are some memories stable over decades, while others fade within minutes

    Using mouse models, Caltech researchers have now determined that strong, stable memories are encoded by “teams” of neurons all fi...

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