Brain's Memory 'Buffer' Discovered In Single Cells

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Brain's Memory 'Buffer' Discovered In Single Cells

Unread post by flyingcloud » Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:06 pm

Brain's Memory 'Buffer' Discovered In Single Cells
ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2009) — Individual nerve cells in the front part of the brain can hold traces of memories on their own for as long as a minute and possibly longer, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

The study, available online and appearing in the February issue of Nature Neuroscience, is the first to identify the specific signal that establishes nonpermanent cellular memory and reveals how the brain holds temporary information. It has implications for addiction, attention disorders and stress-related memory loss, said Dr. Don Cooper, assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study conducted in mice.

Researchers have known that permanent memories are stored when the excitatory amino acid glutamate activates ion channels on nerve cells in the brain to reorganize and strengthen the cells' connections with one another. But this process takes minutes to hours to turn on and off and is too slow to buffer, or temporarily hold, rapidly incoming information.

The researchers found that rapid-fire inputs less than a second long initiate a cellular memory process in single cells lasting as long as minute, a process called metabotropic glutamate transmission. This transmission in the most highly evolved brain region holds moment-to-moment information.

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Re: Brain's Memory 'Buffer' Discovered In Single Cells

Unread post by Maddogkull » Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:52 am

Wow, this is amazing, hopefully someone can comment who is better qualified then me. Amazing

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Re: Brain's Memory 'Buffer' Discovered In Single Cells

Unread post by Jarvamundo » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:34 pm

The study, available online and appearing in the February issue of Nature Neuroscience, is the first to identify the specific signal that establishes nonpermanent cellular memory and reveals how the brain holds temporary information. It has implications for addiction, attention disorders and stress-related memory loss, said Dr. Don Cooper, assistant professor of psychiatry at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study conducted in mice
Interesting, seems to me that the CES devices may regulate these ion channels and re-program or reset glutamate like bits on a hard disk, this research may be a great way to get some detail on these electric therapies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_el ... timulation
The Body Electric - Dr Robert Becker <-- interesting book on this
Russian research back in the early 1900's pioneered this, but from the electric angle... 'electrosleep', used to treat vodka addictions of russian generals. Bob Beck also wrote and talked on this.

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