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engram cell  

Definition

  • Engram cells are "[...] neurons that are activated during an experience, that have undergone enduring physical or chemical changes and that can subsequently be selectively reactivated to produce the retrieval of that experience or inhibited to prevent its retrieval." (Tonegawa et al., 2018, p. 485).

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • cellular engram
  • engram neuron
  • memory engram cell

Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Dixsaut, L., & Gräff, J. (2021). The medial prefrontal cortex and fear memory: Dynamics, connectivity, and engrams. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(22), 12113. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms222212113

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Guskjolen, A., & Cembrowski, M. S. (2023). Engram neurons: Encoding, consolidation, retrieval, and forgetting of memory. Molecular Psychiatry, 28(8), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-023-02137-5

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Josselyn, S. A., & Tonegawa, S. (2020). Memory engrams : Recalling the past and imagining the future. Science, 367(6473), eaaw4325. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw4325

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Rao-Ruiz, P., Visser, E., Mitrić, M., Smit, A. B., & van den Oever, M. C. (2021). A synaptic framework for the persistence of memory engrams. Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsyn.2021.661476

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Ryan, T. J., de San Luis, C. O., Pezzoli, M., & Sen, S. (2021). Engram cell connectivity: An evolving substrate for information storage. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 67, 215–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2021.01.006

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Tonegawa, S., Liu, X., Ramirez, S., & Redondo, R. (2015). Memory engram cells have come of age. Neuron, 87(5), 918–931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.08.002

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Tonegawa, S., Morrissey, M. D., & Kitamura, T. (2018). The role of engram cells in the systems consolidation of memory. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 19(8), 485–498. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-018-0031-2

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Willems, T., & Henke, K. (2021). Imaging human engrams using 7 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging. Hippocampus, 31(12), 1257-1270. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.23391

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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