Inception of a false memory by optogenetic manipulation of a hippocampal memory engram
Memories can be easily distorted, and a lack of relevant animal models has largely hindered our understanding of false-memory formation. Here, we first identified a population of cells in the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus that bear the engrams for a specific context; these cells were natural...
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Royal Society
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98083 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2839-8228 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6697-8330 |