Saturday 13 January 2018

An Ancient Virus May Have Given Humans the Ability to Form Memories

An Ancient Virus May Have Given Humans the Ability to Form Memories

How does memory work? The further we seem to dive in, the more questions we stumble upon about how the function of memory first evolved. Scientists made a key breakthrough with the identification of the Arc protein in 1995, observing how its role in the plastic changes in neurons was critical to memory consolidation.

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