{"id":187411,"date":"2024-04-15T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/mechanism-found-to-determine-which-memories-last"},"modified":"2024-04-15T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T15:23:44","slug":"mechanism-found-to-determine-which-memories-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/mechanism-found-to-determine-which-memories-last","title":{"rendered":"Mechanism found to Determine Which Memories Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mechanism-found-to-determine-which-memories-last2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neuroscientists have established in recent decades the idea that some of each day\u2019s experiences are converted by the brain into permanent memories during sleep the same night. Now, a new study proposes a mechanism that determines which memories are tagged as Important enough to linger in the brain until sleep makes them permanent.<\/p>\n<p>Led by researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the study revolves around brain cells called neurons that \u201cfire\u201d \u2013 or bring about swings in the balance of their positive and negative charges \u2014 to transmit electrical signals that encode memories. Large groups of neurons in the hippocampus fire together in rhythmic cycles, creating sequences of signals within milliseconds of each other that can encode complex information.<\/p>\n<p>Called \u201csharp wave-ripples,\u201d these \u201cshouts\u201d to the rest of the brain represent the near-simultaneous firing of 15 percent of hippocampal neurons, and are named for the shape they take when their activity is captured by electrodes and recorded on a graph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscientists have established in recent decades the idea that some of each day\u2019s experiences are converted by the brain into permanent memories during sleep the same night. Now, a new study proposes a mechanism that determines which memories are tagged as Important enough to linger in the brain until sleep makes them permanent. Led by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187411","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}