{"id":224938,"date":"2025-11-12T01:23:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/researchers-uncover-why-mental-maps-fade-with-age"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:23:38","slug":"researchers-uncover-why-mental-maps-fade-with-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/researchers-uncover-why-mental-maps-fade-with-age","title":{"rendered":"Researchers uncover why mental maps fade with age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-why-mental-maps-fade-with-age.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/news\/media-contacts\/nina-bai.html\">Nina Bai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Studying mice of different ages, Stanford Medicine scientists and colleagues found that neurons involved in spatial memory become less reliable later in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nina Bai Studying mice of different ages, Stanford Medicine scientists and colleagues found that neurons involved in spatial memory become less reliable later in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224938","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\/224938","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=224938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}