Selective Neurone Death as a Possible Memory Mechanism
Abstract
IT is a widely deplored fact that every day many thousands of our brain cells die and, unlike other types of cell, are never replaced1,2. I suggest that this may not be a purely destructive process, as is normally supposed, but may represent a mechanism for one of the brain's most constructive functions, memory or information storage.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- January 1971
- DOI:
- 10.1038/229118a0
- Bibcode:
- 1971Natur.229..118D