October 2015

Alzheimer’s patients suffer from severe memory loss and disorientation. An international research team led by Christian Doeller (Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Nikolai Axmacher (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) has now shown that a genetically increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease affects a brain region known as the “GPS” of the brain already in healthy young adults. The results were published in the journal “Science”.
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In a new paper in Nature Neuroscience, we show that memories of the same events co-exist at different scales in the brain. To avoid interference, the different memory scales (coarse, medium and fine) are distributed across different parts of the hippocampus, with finest scale memories at the back and the coarser memories at the front.
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