What Are Memories Made Of?

When thinking of memories, we conjure up childhood parties, weddings or maybe your child’s birth. Charles Hoeffer, assistant professor of integrative physiology at CU Boulder has been working for 5 years to better understand a protein called AKT. His answer would be, he thinks about proteins. AKT is ubiquitous in brain tissue and instrumental in enabling the brain to adapt to new experiences to lay down new memories.

Scientists know very little about what it does to the brain, but there is now a new paper funded by the National Institutes of Health by Hoeffer and his co-authors. …read more