{"id":113742,"date":"2020-10-02T11:25:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/surprising-brain-area-linked-to-short-term-memory"},"modified":"2020-10-02T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:25:55","slug":"surprising-brain-area-linked-to-short-term-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/surprising-brain-area-linked-to-short-term-memory","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Brain Area Linked to Short-Term Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surprising-brain-area-linked-to-short-term-memory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Rockefeller University have just released findings from a new study, done in mice, which identifies a gene that is critical for short-term memory but functions in a part of the brain not traditionally associated with memory. Classical models for short-term memory typically assume that all neuronal activity is contained within the prefrontal cortex (PFC), yet, data from this new study suggests that a G-protein coupled receptor in the thalamus may play a large role. Data from the study was published recently in <em>Cell<\/em> through an article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0092867420311521\">A Thalamic Orphan Receptor Drives Variability in Short Term Memory<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, in order to discover new genes and brain circuits that are important for short-term memory, the researchers turned to studying genetically diverse mice, rather than inbred mice commonly used in research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe needed a population that is diverse enough to be able to answer the question of what genetic differences might account for variation in short-term memory,\u201d explained co-senior study investigator Praveen Sethupathy, PhD, an associate professor of biomedical sciences in Cornell\u2019s College of Veterinary Medicine and director of the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Rockefeller University have just released findings from a new study, done in mice, which identifies a gene that is critical for short-term memory but functions in a part of the brain not traditionally associated with memory. Classical models for short-term memory typically assume that all neuronal activity is contained within the prefrontal cortex [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}