{"id":208134,"date":"2025-03-08T08:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/study-shows-that-dendritic-plasticity-contributes-to-the-integration-of-memories"},"modified":"2025-03-08T08:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:13:11","slug":"study-shows-that-dendritic-plasticity-contributes-to-the-integration-of-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/study-shows-that-dendritic-plasticity-contributes-to-the-integration-of-memories","title":{"rendered":"Study shows that dendritic plasticity contributes to the integration of memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-shows-that-dendritic-plasticity-contributes-to-the-integration-of-memories.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Past neuroscience studies suggest that memories of events that occurred at short time intervals from one another are often connected, via a process referred to as memory linking. While memory linking is now a well-documented phenomenon, its neural underpinnings have not been fully elucidated.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) recently carried out a study aimed at better understanding the neural processes that contribute to memory linking in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/mouse+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mouse brain<\/a>. Their findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-025-01876-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i><i>Nature<\/i> Neuroscience<\/i>, suggest that dendritic plasticity, the adaptation of dendrites (i.e., branch-like extensions of neurons) over time, plays a key role in the linking of memories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few years back, in a landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-05-brain-memories.html\">study<\/a> published in <i>Nature<\/i> in 2016, we demonstrated that memories formed a few hours apart are linked because they are stored in a common set of neurons in the hippocampus,\u201d Alcino Silva, senior author of the paper, told Medical Xpress. \u201cWe wanted to know: Where within these neurons are these memories stored and linked? What was causing these neurons to be recruited?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Past neuroscience studies suggest that memories of events that occurred at short time intervals from one another are often connected, via a process referred to as memory linking. While memory linking is now a well-documented phenomenon, its neural underpinnings have not been fully elucidated. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) recently carried [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208134","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\/208134","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=208134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}