September 30th, 2010 by Stand Team

Stop and think for a moment. What remember your breakfast this morning? a part of your brain to recalls the smell of coffee, while another recalls the smile on your partner while walking to the door. How does the brain, such as weaves these fragments and how the leads back to the conscious life?

The researchers led by the Prof Itzhak Fried, a neurosurgeon at the University of Tel Aviv Sackler of the Faculty of Medicine, have demonstrated what they have always suspected scientists, that neurons are excited during an experience of the same way that when we recall that experience.

This finding, reported in the prestigious Science magazine, gives researchers a clearer picture of how the memory and the recall has important implications for understanding of the dementias like Alzheimer’s Disease, in which fragments of memory of the puzzle seem disintegrate over time.

“This is a rare opportunity to see how neurons that are the basic units of the cognition, working during the event to remember,” said the Prof Fried of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where it is also a professor.

“This is unique because we are able to look just the cells in the brain, when people spontaneously recall something inside of his memory, without any external stimulation”.

The investigation was difficult and could only be performed on human subjects, as other animals lack the capacity to verbalize their memories. Read the rest of this entry »