Mark Sheffield and Daniel Dombeck Featured in Northwestern News
Mark Sheffield (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Daniel Dombeck are featured in Northwestern News for their publication in Nature. The story, Activity in Dendrites is Critical in Memory Formation, sheds light on why we might remember some things and not others.
“There are a lot of theories on memory but very little data as to how individual neurons actually store information in a behaving animal,” said Dombeck, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the study’s senior author. “Now we have uncovered signals in dendrites that we think are very important for learning and memory. Our findings could explain why some experiences are remembered and others are forgotten.”
Read the full story on Northwestern News.
29 October 2014