> Given the evidence, Burgess instead suspects the answer may be hiding in the thicket of tiny neural connections we call “synapses”. Once we have experienced a

> Given the evidence, Burgess instead suspects the answer may be hiding in the thicket of tiny neural connections we call “synapses”. Once we have experienced an event, the memories are slowly cemented in the long term by altering these richly woven networks. That process of “consolidation” involves the production of new proteins to rebuild the synapses in their new shape; without it, the memory remains fragile and is easily eroded with time. I was reading the other day about a study that's checking to see if injecting BDNF [1] into a patient's cochlea will help improve their hearing. In animal studies it helped rebuild broken synapses and led to better hearing. I wonder if injecting the brain with the missing proteins (or as the article refers to them, "ink") would help with the formation of memories? Though maybe this is too simplistic of a view. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_fac...