{"id":13786,"date":"2025-06-07T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13786"},"modified":"2025-06-07T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:53:14","slug":"astrocytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/07\/astrocytes\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrocytes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/little-known-cells-might-be-key-to-human-brain-s-massive-memory\/ar-AA1Ggemy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Washington Post via MSN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Little-known cells might be key to human brain\u2019s massive memory<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by\u00a0Erin Blakemore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-3.png 768w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-3-480x480.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 768px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Little-known cells might be key to human brain\u2019s massive memory\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0Arthur Chien\/Science Source<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A new model of memory \u2014 and a little-heralded type of brain cell \u2014 might explain why the human brain has such a huge storage capacity, researchers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2417788122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in the journal PNAS in May.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study looks at astrocytes, star-shaped cells that interact with neurons in the brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brain contains billions of astrocytes, and scientists have long known they play a part in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC2568012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cleaning<\/a>&nbsp;up molecules within brain synapses, the junctions where neurons come together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More recent research, though, suggests that astrocytes do more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new model suggests the astrocytes could also be used for computation, coordinating with neurons and connecting synapses in networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/little-known-cells-might-be-key-to-human-brain-s-massive-memory\/ar-AA1Ggemy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at MSN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post via MSN Little-known cells might be key to human brain\u2019s massive memory by\u00a0Erin Blakemore A new model of memory \u2014 and a little-heralded type of brain cell \u2014 might explain why the human brain has such a huge storage capacity, researchers&nbsp;reported&nbsp;in the journal PNAS in May.&nbsp; The study looks at astrocytes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}