{"id":209541,"date":"2025-03-23T02:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T07:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/dendritic-spines-the-key-to-understanding-how-memories-are-linked-in-time"},"modified":"2025-03-23T02:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T07:05:29","slug":"dendritic-spines-the-key-to-understanding-how-memories-are-linked-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/dendritic-spines-the-key-to-understanding-how-memories-are-linked-in-time","title":{"rendered":"Dendritic spines: The key to understanding how memories are linked in time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dendritic-spines-the-key-to-understanding-how-memories-are-linked-in-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a new study reveals the reason: Our brains physically link memories that occur close in time not in the cell bodies of neurons, but rather in their spiny extensions called dendrites.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery stems from studies in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/mice\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mice<\/a>, in which researchers observed memory formation using advanced imaging techniques, including miniature microscopes that captured single-cell resolution in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/live+animals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">live animals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study shows that memories are stored in dendritic compartments: When one memory forms, the affected dendrites are primed to capture new information arriving within the next few hours, linking memories formed close in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a new study reveals the reason: Our brains physically link memories that occur close in time not in the cell bodies of neurons, but rather in their spiny extensions called dendrites. This discovery stems from studies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209541","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}