More than half of hippocampal synapses vanish, yet mouse memories remain intact

How bash we retrieve the distant past? For decades, scientists person believed synaptic potentiation—the adaptive strengthening of our brain's cellular connections—to beryllium the cardinal to representation retention. Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and collaborators including the University of Tsukuba, the Exploratory Research Center connected Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), and National Institutes of Physiological Sciences situation these long-held beliefs.