Discovery of a new key player in long-term memory – Medical Xpress

A McGill-led multi-institutional research team has discovered that during memory consolidation, there are at least two distinct processes taking place in two different brain networksthe excitatory and inhibitory networks. The excitatory neurons are involved in creating a memory trace, and the inhibitory neurons block out background noise and allow long-term learning to take place.
The team, led by McGill University Professors Nahum Sonenberg and Arkady Khoutorsky, Université de Montréal Profess…

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