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From: "Jan Coetzee" <>
Subject: Forget what you thought: Memory about to change, fast
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 20:40:23 -0400

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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




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