Memory Engram Cells Have Come of Age

Neuron

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 918-931

  Tonegawa, Susumu ^a   Liu, Xu ^a   Ramirez, Steve ^a   Redondo, Roger ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPRESSION; EXCITABILITY; FALSE MEMORY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; THEORY; TRANSGENICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS;

EID: 84939444336     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.08.002     Document Type: Review

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