{"id":199632,"date":"2024-11-17T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/mind-blowing-discovery-scientists-discover-that-memories-are-not-only-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2024-11-17T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T17:23:15","slug":"mind-blowing-discovery-scientists-discover-that-memories-are-not-only-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/mind-blowing-discovery-scientists-discover-that-memories-are-not-only-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Mind-Blowing Discovery: Scientists Discover That Memories Are Not Only in the Brain"},"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\/hmzlynZk8Yk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our brains\u2014and specifically, our brain cells\u2014are commonly known to store memories. However, a team of scientists has discovered that cells from other parts of the body also play a role in memory, opening new pathways for understanding how memory functions and creating potential for enhancing learning and treating memory-related conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearning and memory are generally associated with brains and brain cells alone, but our study shows that other cells in the body can learn and form memories, too,\u201d explains <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/new-york-university\/\"> New York University \u2019s<\/a> Nikolay V. Kukushkin, the lead author of the study, which appears in the journal <em> <i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The research sought to better understand if non-brain cells help with memory by borrowing from a long-established neurological property\u2014the massed-spaced effect\u2014which shows that we tend to retain information better when studied in spaced intervals rather than in a single, intensive session\u2014better known as cramming for a test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our brains\u2014and specifically, our brain cells\u2014are commonly known to store memories. However, a team of scientists has discovered that cells from other parts of the body also play a role in memory, opening new pathways for understanding how memory functions and creating potential for enhancing learning and treating memory-related conditions. \u201cLearning and memory are generally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199632","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}