{"id":213526,"date":"2025-05-07T22:09:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/mapping-memory-protein-tracking-technique-reveals-synaptic-changes-during-learning"},"modified":"2025-05-07T22:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:09:46","slug":"mapping-memory-protein-tracking-technique-reveals-synaptic-changes-during-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/mapping-memory-protein-tracking-technique-reveals-synaptic-changes-during-learning","title":{"rendered":"Mapping memory: Protein tracking technique reveals synaptic changes during learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mapping-memory-protein-tracking-technique-reveals-synaptic-changes-during-learning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Harvard researchers have unveiled a way to map the molecular underpinnings of how learning and memories are formed, a new technique expected to offer insights that may pave the way for new treatments for neurological disorders such as dementia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis technique provides a lens into the synaptic architecture of memory, something previously unattainable in such detail,\u201d said Adam Cohen, professor of chemistry and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/chemical+biology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical biology<\/a> and of physics and senior co-author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-025-01922-5\" target=\"_blank\">research paper<\/a>, published in Nature Neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>Memory resides within a dense network of billions of neurons within the brain. We rely on synaptic plasticity\u2014the strengthening and modulation of connections between these neurons\u2014to facilitate learning and memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Harvard researchers have unveiled a way to map the molecular underpinnings of how learning and memories are formed, a new technique expected to offer insights that may pave the way for new treatments for neurological disorders such as dementia. \u201cThis technique provides a lens into the synaptic architecture of memory, something previously [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,1965,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-mapping","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213526","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}