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What is memory? The present state of the engram

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Title
What is memory? The present state of the engram
Published in
BMC Biology, May 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12915-016-0261-6
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Mu-ming Poo, Michele Pignatelli, Tomás J. Ryan, Susumu Tonegawa, Tobias Bonhoeffer, Kelsey C. Martin, Andrii Rudenko, Li-Huei Tsai, Richard W. Tsien, Gord Fishell, Caitlin Mullins, J. Tiago Gonçalves, Matthew Shtrahman, Stephen T. Johnston, Fred H. Gage, Yang Dan, John Long, György Buzsáki, Charles Stevens

Abstract

The mechanism of memory remains one of the great unsolved problems of biology. Grappling with the question more than a hundred years ago, the German zoologist Richard Semon formulated the concept of the engram, lasting connections in the brain that result from simultaneous "excitations", whose precise physical nature and consequences were out of reach of the biology of his day. Neuroscientists now have the knowledge and tools to tackle this question, however, and this Forum brings together leading contemporary views on the mechanisms of memory and what the engram means today.

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Country Count As %
United States 8 <1%
France 5 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 1149 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 273 23%
Researcher 192 16%
Student > Bachelor 164 14%
Student > Master 125 11%
Professor 56 5%
Other 174 15%
Unknown 195 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 402 34%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 207 18%
Psychology 74 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 71 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 65 6%
Other 138 12%
Unknown 222 19%