J.N.Browndyke wrote:
>> On 5 Mar 1997 16:53:39 -0800, rcb1 at LEX.LCCC.EDU (Ron Blue) wrote:
>> >On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Robert Cook wrote:
> >> Did anyone out there see or hear about an announcement during the last
> >> week in February by an (English?) scientist about some kind of
> >> breakthrough in the field of "memory molecules"? I'm not asking for a
> >> technical breakdown of the discovery, just 1.Did it happen, 2.Who did
> >> it and 3.Where? If you've seen anything along these lines, *please*
> >> drop me an email as listed below. Thank you.
> >> Robert M. Cook
> >> cook at sos.net> >> http://www.sos.net/home/cook/index2.htm> >Yes, I remember reading about something like this I believe in The
> >Scientist some time in the last two weeks. Sorry, I can not help
> >you better. Ron
>> I remember seeing the report. From what I remember, the molecule was
> called CAMP (no, not cyclic AMP, I think?) and was released from the
> soma and traveled to synaptic connections to strengthen bonds between
> communicating axons. What I found most interesting was the assertion
> that the CAMP molecules take about an hour to regenerate and send more
> strengthening stuff to the synapse, and the assertion was that this
> may account for the fact that distributed practice is better than
> massed practice in learning paradigms.
>> I believe I saw this report on the primetime CBS news about a week and
> half ago.
>> Hope this helps,
> Jeff Browndyke
I think
http://165.123.33.33/yr1997/feb/research_970203.html
contains The Scientist article Ron Blue referred to.
JA
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