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  • Scientists Get First Image of Memory Being Made - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News - FOXNews.com

    I hope they keep going with this -- will need that cure for Alzheimers any day now... Scientists Get First Image of Memory Being Made Friday, June 26, 2009 By Clara Moskowitz Martin et. al The increase in green fluorescence represents the imaging of protein synthesis at... more

    Reviewed by bonbonnie Jun 27, 10:31pm ( 14 reviews ) • foxnews.com

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  • Rated by killerwhale89 on Jun 29, 12:19pm

    This is amazing!

  • Rated by sosh on Jun 29, 10:16am

    interesting

  • Rated by Solution9 on Jun 29, 3:55am

    zomg fox news. oh noez.

  • Rated by snarfeh on Jun 28, 9:13pm

    Please, please let this soon lead to a cure for Alzheimers....

  • Rated by thelibertywell on Jun 28, 12:25pm

    This story has been circulating for a while Fox...

  • Rated by bonbonnie on Jun 27, 10:31pm

    I hope they keep going with this -- will need that cure for Alzheimers any day now... Scientists Get First Image of Memory Being Made Friday, June 26, 2009 By Clara Moskowitz Martin et. al The increase in green fluorescence represents the imaging of protein synthesis at synapses when memories are made. For the first time, an image of a memory being made at the cellular level has been captured by scientists. The image shows that proteins are created at connections between brain cells when a long-term memory is formed. Neuroscientists had suspected as much, but hadn't been able to see it happening until now. The experiment also revealed some surprising aspects of memory formation, which remains a somewhat mysterious process. Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Natural Science Center. Kelsey Martin, a biochemist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues investigated memory formation in neurons from the sea slug Aplysia californica, a good model for brain cells in other organisms, including humans. The researchers exposed the neurons to the chemical serotonin, which has been shown to stimulate memory formation (this discovery won Eric Kandel and collaborators the Nobel Prize in 2000). But in a new twist, the scientists devised a way to determine whether any new proteins were created when the memory was made. .

  • Rated by ASweetBabe on Jun 27, 9:23pm

    Not sure what to think!

  • Rated by Micseydel on Jun 27, 8:59pm

    I wish they'd say how we know it's a long term memory rather than something else. After all, that's what so special about this.

  • Reviewed by jbernal on Jun 27, 4:57pm

    I won't thumb it up only because it's Fox News reporting it. It's not a reliable source from my experience.