Is memory a function of neuronal communication?
What most neuroscientists believe is that, to actually encode memories into our brain, you need to set up a network, a neuronal network that can be recalled when you’re remember something. And so the idea is that there are millions of neurons, and that when you are learning something, you’re setting up a new network through those neurons. So specific connections–you’re enhancing certain connections between certain neurons, and actually inhibiting connections between other neurons, and in this way you sculpt out a pathway, a neuronal pathway through this network of neurons. So many of us are interested in what are the sorts of molecular mechanisms that underlie this process of both strengthening and weakening the synaptic connections. So at a molecular level, how do you make neurons communicate better at their points of contact, which are called synapses, and in the same way, how do you reverse this process? How do you weaken a synapse? So this is a bidirectional regulation. You regula
