Rice University study sheds light on how long-term memories form

New Rice University research suggests that tiny "muscles" inside neurons may be the key to the molecular machinery that forms and stores long-term memories, a discovery that might someday have implications on the study of diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.Peter Wolynes, a theoretical biological physicist at Rice, and his team published research this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal that suggests the path to encoding memories may lie in the way actin fil