Thoughts from David Glanzman (UCLA) on high-risk research
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David Glanzman is Professor, Integrative Biology And Physiology and Professor, Neurobiology, at UCLA. Glanzman has done extensive work with the Aplysia — in his words in a well-regarded 2014 paper, “reflexes of a sea slug known as Aplysia are often used to study memory because it has a simple nervous system in which individual sensory neurons (which detect changes) only form synapses with single motor neurons (which control muscles).” In that paper, he and his lab showed that “long-term memory could be restored after these treatments [to disrupt synapses], which supports that idea that memory does not depend on synapses between the neurons being maintained.” That finding was extended in a
Thoughts from David Glanzman (UCLA) on high-risk research
Thoughts from David Glanzman (UCLA) on…
Thoughts from David Glanzman (UCLA) on high-risk research
David Glanzman is Professor, Integrative Biology And Physiology and Professor, Neurobiology, at UCLA. Glanzman has done extensive work with the Aplysia — in his words in a well-regarded 2014 paper, “reflexes of a sea slug known as Aplysia are often used to study memory because it has a simple nervous system in which individual sensory neurons (which detect changes) only form synapses with single motor neurons (which control muscles).” In that paper, he and his lab showed that “long-term memory could be restored after these treatments [to disrupt synapses], which supports that idea that memory does not depend on synapses between the neurons being maintained.” That finding was extended in a