Study Reveals How Brain Helps Retain Memories

In an image study, scientists have revealed that dendrites in specific neurons called 'place cells' were critical in keeping memories and allowed some experiences to be remembered while others are forgotten. In the brain's hippocampus, there were hundreds of thousands of 'place cells'-neurons essential to the brain's GPS system. Daniel A. Dombeck and Mark E. J. Sheffield were the first to image the activity of individual dendrites in place cells. Dombeck ...