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MedicalJuly 13, 2026

Astrocytic Ank2 Helped Mouse Memories Persist

TL;DR: A 2026 mouse study in Nature Communications found that deleting ankyrin-2 (Ank2) from hippocampal astrocytes left recent memory intact but weakened remote memory, pointing to astrocyte structure as part of how memories stay stable over time. Key Finding…

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CognitionSeptember 2, 2023

New Research Upends Long-Standing Theory on How Memories Form

Groundbreaking new research challenges decades of accepted neuroscience dogma on how memories are formed in the brain. The study provides strong evidence that the induction of long-term potentiation (LTP), widely believed to be the cellular mechanism underlyin…

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Astrocytic Ank2 Helped Mouse Memories Persist

New Research Upends Long-Standing Theory on How Memories Form

The findings. The context. The caveats.