> Our memories may persist even when half of the brain connections that store them are wiped out, according to a study in dormant mice. The “remarkable” discovery tells us more about how memory works and could one day reveal ways to improve it.
> “Memories may be harder to break than we thought,” says Steve Ramirez at Boston University, who wasn’t involved in the study. “This absolutely, substantially advances our understanding of how memory works.”
Paper paywalled at Science. But available at BioRxiv [1]
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> Our memories may persist even when half of the brain connections that store them are wiped out, according to a study in dormant mice. The “remarkable” discovery tells us more about how memory works and could one day reveal ways to improve it.
> “Memories may be harder to break than we thought,” says Steve Ramirez at Boston University, who wasn’t involved in the study. “This absolutely, substantially advances our understanding of how memory works.”
Paper paywalled at Science. But available at BioRxiv [1]
[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2584638-remarkable-disc...
[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.692927v1
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.692927v1...