Sunday, March 11, 2012
A brain memory code?
"Despite a century of research, memory encoding in the brain has remained mysterious. Neuronal synaptic connection strengths are involved, but synaptic components are short-lived while memories last lifetimes. This suggests synaptic information is encoded and hard-wired at a deeper, finer-grained molecular scale. In an article in the March 8 issue of the journal PLoS Computational Biology, physicists Travis Craddock and Jack Tuszynski of the University of Alberta, and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff of the University of Arizona demonstrate a plausible mechanism for encoding synaptic memory in microtubules, major components of the structural cytoskeleton within neurons". News article @ Science Daily
Paper: Craddock TJA , Tuszynski JA , Hameroff S (2012) "Cytoskeletal Signaling: Is Memory Encoded in Microtubule Lattices by CaMKII Phosphorylation?" PLoS Comput Biol 8(3): e1002421. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002421
Paper: Craddock TJA , Tuszynski JA , Hameroff S (2012) "Cytoskeletal Signaling: Is Memory Encoded in Microtubule Lattices by CaMKII Phosphorylation?" PLoS Comput Biol 8(3): e1002421. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002421
