SD: Researchers Create Short-Term Memories In Vitro

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SD: Researchers Create Short-Term Memories In Vitro

#1 Post by ellis » Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:57 am

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 143407.htm
Ben W. Strowbridge, PhD, Professor of Neurosciences and Physiology/Biophysics, and Robert A. Hyde, a fourth year MD/PhD student in the neurosciences graduate program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, have discovered how to store diverse forms of artificial short-term memories in isolated brain tissue.

Their study, entitled "Mnemonic Representations of Transient Stimuli and Temporal Sequences in Rodent Hippocampus In Vitro," is slated for publication in the October issue of Nature Neuroscience, and is currently available online.

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