Category: brain
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Rescued Memory
If you read my previous post on Alzheimer’s (AD) you have some understanding that the way our bodies use and regulate lipids (fat and cholesterol) has impact on this pressing health issue. Although amyloid beta – when pathological is one of the hallmarks of the plaque build-up associated with AD – is a protein, there is an…
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False but happy memory implanted in sleeping mice – Rodent recall
photo: Chris Warbey via Guardian newspaper This is really interesting – animals, including humans, have a map of neurons that represent “place”. By figuring out which neuron represented which place in a mouses brain, scientists attached an electrode to this single specific “place” neuron, and another in the reward center of the brain: Scientists have…