Indian Scientists develop tool to understand long-term memory consolidation

Indian Scientists have made a landmark achievement in the field of neuroscience and understanding the process of long term memory. They have developed a first-of-its-kind tool with the help of which one can understand the long-term memory consolidation inside a brain. They captured the signals from a rodent brain.

A press statement released by the Ministry of Science and Technology this novel tool is being a first of its kind in India has been developed by Prof. Suhel Parvez and his group at the Department of Toxicology, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Jamia Hamdard (Deemed to be University), New Delhi, who established the Behavioral Tagging model for understanding the process of LTM consolidation in the brain.

The Ministry said, “Learning and memory are the fundamental processes of brain and are one of the most intensively studied subjects in the field of neuroscience. Learning is attributed to the acquisition of new data and memory. Retention of the acquired data leads to long-term memory (LTM) formation.”

It added, “The new tool which uses the behavioral tagging model is a novel one to study LTM consolidation through behavioral analysis. On a similar line, bio-signals are now being used to explore the latent features of memory consolidation by a technique called In Vivo Electrophysiology which can be utilized by capturing the neural signals from rodent brain under experimental conditions.”

Professor Suhel said, “The facility is well equipped with several neurobehavioral apparatuses for rodents to assess parameters which are analyzed by using Any-MAZE software. Also, the research on neurodegenerative disorders causing memory impairment such as Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and many more could utilize the findings of the work to find a direct link between the memory consolidation pathway and memory impairment mechanism in such diseased state.”