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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Main Authors: Liu, Xu, Ramirez Moreno, Steve, Tonegawa, Susumu
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Royal Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98083
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2839-8228
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6697-8330