MIT Devised New Brain Circuits for Learning and Memory Pathway
Scientists of the ‘Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT have been successful in creating a mechanism to record the effects of blocking and unblocking the single neural circuit in a living animal for the first time.
Susumu Tonegawa, Professor of Biology and Neurosciences devised this revolutionary mechanism to observe the effects of bypassing one of the major memory-forming circuits in the brain and its impacts on the learning and memory capacities in mice. Details of this research have been published in this week’s online edition of the journal “Science”.