On November 6, 2024, Nature published research co-authored by AFAR Grantee Denise Cai, PhD, on the brain mechanisms involved in updating and integrating memories over time.
The research also garnered attention in Health Day and U.S. News and World Reports, where Dr. Cai provided further insights, sharing:
“We’ve taken a major step in the direction of better understanding real-world memory, where we know that our memories are constantly being updated and remodeled with subsequent experience so that we can function day-to-day in a dynamic world.”
Dr. Cai is a 2023 McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Lossrecipient.
Read the article “Offline ensemble co-reactivation links memories across days” in Nature here.
Read the U.S. News and World Report article, “In Mouse Studies, New Clues to How Brain 'Refreshes' Memories,” here. This article was also featured in HealthDay.
