March 2012 – Tonegawa Laboratory

Kerri Smith

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By Azeddine Tahiri

In News

Posted March 29, 2012

Memory Test

Nature’s neuroscience podcast reporter Kerri Smith interviews Susumu Tonegawa via telephone regarding the research paper, “Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory [...]

By Azeddine Tahiri

In News

Posted March 22, 2012

Researchers show that memories reside in specific brain cells

Simply activating a tiny number of neurons can conjure an entire memory. Our fond or fearful memories — that first kiss or a bump in the night — leave memory traces that we may conjure up in the [...]