{"id":234264,"date":"2026-03-30T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/super-bizarre-neuroscientists-discover-that-adult-brain-is-filled-with-millions-of-silent-synapses"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:03:46","slug":"super-bizarre-neuroscientists-discover-that-adult-brain-is-filled-with-millions-of-silent-synapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/super-bizarre-neuroscientists-discover-that-adult-brain-is-filled-with-millions-of-silent-synapses","title":{"rendered":"Super Bizarre\u201d \u2014 Neuroscientists Discover That Adult Brain Is Filled With Millions of \u201cSilent Synapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/super-bizarre-neuroscientists-discover-that-adult-brain-is-filled-with-millions-of-silent-synapses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly large reserve of \u201csilent synapses\u201d in the adult brain\u2014unused neural connections that can be rapidly activated to store new memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly large reserve of \u201csilent synapses\u201d in the adult brain\u2014unused neural connections that can be rapidly activated to store new memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234264","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}