{"id":151550,"date":"2022-11-30T19:25:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T01:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/silent-synapses-are-abundant-in-the-adult-brain"},"modified":"2022-11-30T19:25:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T01:25:14","slug":"silent-synapses-are-abundant-in-the-adult-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/silent-synapses-are-abundant-in-the-adult-brain","title":{"rendered":"Silent Synapses Are Abundant in the Adult Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silent-synapses-are-abundant-in-the-adult-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: The adult brain contains millions of \u201csilent synapses\u201d, or immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they are required for learning new information and storing new memories.<\/p>\n<p>Source: MIT<\/p>\n<p>MIT neuroscientists have discovered that the adult brain contains millions of \u201csilent synapses\u201d \u2014 immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they\u2019re recruited to help form new memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: The adult brain contains millions of \u201csilent synapses\u201d, or immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they are required for learning new information and storing new memories. Source: MIT MIT neuroscientists have discovered that the adult brain contains millions of \u201csilent synapses\u201d \u2014 immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they\u2019re recruited [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151550","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}