Scripps Research Institute: Scientists Discover 'forgetting' Enzyme That Lops Brain Cell Branches
August 09, 2019
August 09, 2019
JUPITER, Florida, Aug. 9 -- The Scripps Research Institute issued the following news release:
An enzyme called caspase 2 plays a key role in cognition by helping to remove unwanted connections, or synapses, between neurons in the brain, a new study from scientists at the Florida campus of Scripps Research suggests.
This "synapse pruning" process, together with the opposing process in which new synapses are formed, underlies everyday learning as well as the hea . . .
An enzyme called caspase 2 plays a key role in cognition by helping to remove unwanted connections, or synapses, between neurons in the brain, a new study from scientists at the Florida campus of Scripps Research suggests.
This "synapse pruning" process, together with the opposing process in which new synapses are formed, underlies everyday learning as well as the hea . . .