{"id":173594,"date":"2023-10-06T01:26:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T06:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-discover-neurons-that-act-as-brain-glue-to-recall-memories"},"modified":"2023-10-06T01:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T06:26:18","slug":"scientists-discover-neurons-that-act-as-brain-glue-to-recall-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-discover-neurons-that-act-as-brain-glue-to-recall-memories","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover neurons that act as brain \u2018glue\u2019 to recall memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-neurons-that-act-as-brain-glue-to-recall-memories.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered new insights into how our brain stores episodic memories\u2014a type of long-term, conscious memory of a previous experience\u2014that could be critical to the development of new neuroprosthetic devices to help patients with memory problems, like Alzheimer\u2019s disease and dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The new study\u2014led by the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham and University of Erlangen\u2014used special electrodes, implanted directly into the brains of epilepsy patients requiring surgery, to allow scientists to observe the activity of individual neurons in the hippocampus region of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The hippocampus is a challenging area to study, due to its location deep within the brain, yet this area is critical for our memory, acting as the librarian to the memory library in our brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered new insights into how our brain stores episodic memories\u2014a type of long-term, conscious memory of a previous experience\u2014that could be critical to the development of new neuroprosthetic devices to help patients with memory problems, like Alzheimer\u2019s disease and dementia. The new study\u2014led by the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173594","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}