{"id":196286,"date":"2024-09-16T23:27:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/research-suggests-neurons-protect-and-preserve-certain-information-through-a-dedicated-zone-of-stable-synapses"},"modified":"2024-09-16T23:27:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:27:34","slug":"research-suggests-neurons-protect-and-preserve-certain-information-through-a-dedicated-zone-of-stable-synapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/research-suggests-neurons-protect-and-preserve-certain-information-through-a-dedicated-zone-of-stable-synapses","title":{"rendered":"Research suggests neurons protect and preserve certain information through a dedicated zone of stable synapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-suggests-neurons-protect-and-preserve-certain-information-through-a-dedicated-zone-of-stable-synapses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the brain\u2019s most celebrated qualities is its adaptability. Changes to neural circuits, whose connections are continually adjusted as we experience and interact with the world, are key to how we learn. But to keep knowledge and memories intact, some parts of the circuitry must be resistant to this constant change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrains have figured out how to navigate this landscape of balancing between stability and flexibility, so that you can have new learning and you can have lifelong memory,\u201d says neuroscientist Mark Harnett, an investigator at MIT\u2019s McGovern Institute for Brain Research.<\/p>\n<p>In research <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2211124724009884\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Cell Reports<\/i>, Harnett and his team show how individual neurons can contribute to both parts of this vital duality. By studying the synapses through which pyramidal neurons in the brain\u2019s sensory cortex communicate, they have learned how the cells preserve their understanding of some of the world\u2019s most fundamental features, while also maintaining the flexibility they need to adapt to a changing world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the brain\u2019s most celebrated qualities is its adaptability. Changes to neural circuits, whose connections are continually adjusted as we experience and interact with the world, are key to how we learn. But to keep knowledge and memories intact, some parts of the circuitry must be resistant to this constant change. \u201cBrains have figured [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196286","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}