X-Message-Number: 17648 From: "Jan Coetzee" <> Subject: Forget what you thought: Memory about to change, fast Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 20:40:23 -0400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C143A6.CDDB0680 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0014_01C143A6.CDDB0680" ------=_NextPart_001_0014_01C143A6.CDDB0680 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Forget what you thought: Memory about to change, fast 20 September 2001 13:05 EST by Rabiya S. Tuma, BioMedNet News Researchers have been slowly developing an image of how humans establish memories, but that pace will likely accelerate this fall, with new work from Susumu Tonegawa's lab. A groundbreaking study released today is just the first of several due to appear in coming months. Using standard approaches, but with an elegance not always achieved in experimental design, Tonegawa's lab is set to unveil results illuminating how short-term memories are turned into long-term ones via a process called consolidation, how different types of learning occurs in unexpected ways, and how memory recall occurs. The work is extremely important, says Alcino Silva, an associate professor of neurobiology at the University of California-Los Angeles. He says he knows the work intimately through discussions with Tonegawa. "Many of the studies before did not bridge what this study does," he told BioMedNet News in a telephone interview. http://news.bmn.com/news/story?day=010921&story=1 ------=_NextPart_001_0014_01C143A6.CDDB0680 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17648