'We now have a firmer understanding of the cellular mechanisms that allow memories to be both formed and stored,' Professor Cristina Alberini said.
Neuroscientists in New York have made a major breakthrough in memory research that promises to revolutionize our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
According to the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 5.8 million American adults live with Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias. And yet, our understanding of these diseases is still fairly limited, largely thanks to question marks over how memories are actually formed.
"This work connects important dots between the newly discovered function of pericytes in memory and previous studies showing that pericytes are either lost or malfunction in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and other dementia," one of the study's co-authors, Benjamin Bessières, a postdoctoral researcher in NYU's Center for Neural Science, said in a statement.
"Cooperation between neurons and pericytes is necessary to assure that long-term memories are formed," senior author Cristina Alberini, a professor in NYU's Center for Neural Science, said in a statement."Our study provides a new view of the biology of memory—though more research is needed to further understand the roles of pericytes and the vascular system in memory and its diseases.
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