The current model in neuroscience poses that memory is stored as long -
lasting anatomical changes in synapses, the specialized structures by which nerve cells connect and signal to each other.
Not exact matches
In work published
last year, the team sequenced selected DNA regions of 38 cactus species and concluded that modern Pereskia actually represents two evolutionary groups, one of which probably split off from the rest of the cacti before they had undergone their dramatic
anatomical changes.
Scientists not involved in the study noted that not only is it the first to demonstrate widespread
anatomical changes in the pregnant human brain, but that it goes further by showing that the
changes last for at least 2 years.