{"id":134162,"date":"2022-01-17T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/where-are-memories-stored-in-the-brain-they-may-be-in-the-connections-between-your-brain-cells"},"modified":"2022-01-17T08:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T16:25:06","slug":"where-are-memories-stored-in-the-brain-they-may-be-in-the-connections-between-your-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/where-are-memories-stored-in-the-brain-they-may-be-in-the-connections-between-your-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"Where Are Memories Stored in the Brain? They May Be in the Connections Between Your Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YLVdRPVj-XM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing their physical qualities. Over 130 years ago, pioneering neuroscientist <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/0166-2236(94)90101-5\">Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal<\/a> first suggested that the brain stores information by rearranging the connections, or synapses, between neurons.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, neuroscientists have attempted to understand the physical changes associated with memory formation. But visualizing and mapping synapses is challenging to do. For one, synapses are very small and tightly packed together. They\u2019re roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/cmr.a.21249\">10 billion times smaller<\/a> than the smallest object a standard clinical MRI can visualize. Furthermore, there are approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-019-02208-0\">1 billion synapses<\/a> in the mouse brains researchers often use to study brain function, and they\u2019re all the same opaque to translucent color as the tissue surrounding them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All memory storage devices, from your brain to the RAM in your computer, store information by changing their physical qualities. Over 130 years ago, pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal first suggested that the brain stores information by rearranging the connections, or synapses, between neurons. Since then, neuroscientists have attempted to understand the physical changes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134162","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=134162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}