The puzzle is thus how the cell knows exactly where to make memory-forming proteins.

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Electrical stimulation of these synapses releases a chemical called serotonin and this, in turn, somehow stimulates the manufacture of the memory-forming proteins.

ECONOMIST: Prion proteins

Tully's firm is searching for a drug that would accomplish this by lowering the levels of memory-forming proteins in the brain centers involved in recalling emotional events.

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One of the things that Dr Kandel's previous work has shown is that long-term memory is the result of new proteins being made at the synaptic connections between nerve cells.

ECONOMIST: Prion proteins

Oligomers, which are considered more toxic to brain tissue than amyloid-beta proteins, were applied to the hippocampus, the brain's memory center, in young mice.

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