SciShow Psych: Engrams: Where Your Brain Keeps Memories

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: A memory isn’t stored in your brain in a neat little package, but is instead spread across a pattern of cells in different regions. What's more, understanding this process could open the door to better treatments for conditions like Alzheimer’s or PTSD. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Main source: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/eaaw4325 Other sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/ https://n.neurology.org/content/64/12/2004 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661313002118 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/317/5842/1230 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/323/5920/1492 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11028 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6144/387 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08637


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