Scientists pinpoint neurons where select memories grow

Memories are difficult to produce, often fragile, and dependent on any number of factors - including changes to various types of nerves. In the common fruit fly - a scientific doppelganger used to study human memory formation - these changes take place in multiple parts of the insect brain.Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have been able to pinpoint a handful of neurons where certain types of memory formation occur, a mapping feat that one day could help scientists predict disease-damaged neurons in humans with the same specificity.



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