> And the repairing of this broken DNA by the immune system somehow strengthens the encoding of the memory? "In other words, during damage-and-repair cycles, n

> And the repairing of this broken DNA by the immune system somehow strengthens the encoding of the memory? "In other words, during damage-and-repair cycles, neurons might encode information about the memory-formation event that triggered the DNA breaks, she says." I'd say the researchers speculate something like what you said. The inflammatory response and the activities involved in DNA repair seem correlated with long term memory formation.