9 May
2014
9 May
'14
9:10 p.m.
Mike Speciner: "But there's a lot of evidence that real memories DO decay." Apparently "the continuous addition of new neurons both degrades existing information stored in hippocampal circuits and simultaneously provides substrates for new learning". http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6184/598 I doubt that any degradation evident in older humans is via that mechanism.