{"id":224503,"date":"2025-11-04T17:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/as-if-a-shudder-ran-from-its-brain-to-its-body-the-neuroscientists-that-learned-to-control-memories-in-rodents"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:04:33","slug":"as-if-a-shudder-ran-from-its-brain-to-its-body-the-neuroscientists-that-learned-to-control-memories-in-rodents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/as-if-a-shudder-ran-from-its-brain-to-its-body-the-neuroscientists-that-learned-to-control-memories-in-rodents","title":{"rendered":"\u2018As if a shudder ran from its brain to its body\u2019: The neuroscientists that learned to control memories in rodents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/as-if-a-shudder-ran-from-its-brain-to-its-body-the-neuroscientists-that-learned-to-control-memories-in-rodents.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this adapted excerpt from \u201cHow to Change a Memory,\u201d author and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez recounts the events that led him and his colleagues to discover memories could be artificially controlled in rodents by zapping their brains with lasers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this adapted excerpt from \u201cHow to Change a Memory,\u201d author and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez recounts the events that led him and his colleagues to discover memories could be artificially controlled in rodents by zapping their brains with lasers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224503","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}