---
title: "Memories lost due to diseases like Alzheimer’s may be able to be restored."
description: "UCLA Research indicates the current idea that memories are stored in synapses, is false. Alzheimer's destroys synapses, bridges between neurons, but the memories themselves may possibly be recovered."
date: "2015-01-01"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Aarya Venkat"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/aaryavenkat"
url: "https://futurism.com/memories-lost-due-diseases-like-alzheimers-may-able-restored"
categories:
  - "Health & Medicine"
  - "Medical"
tags:
  - "medical"
---

# Memories lost due to diseases like Alzheimer’s may be able to be restored.

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- The new study provides evidence contradicting the idea that long-term memory is stored at synapses.
- Using pulses of Serotonin, a hormone that promotes synapse formation, researchers attempted to rebuild identical versions of destroyed synapses.
- Instead new synapses were created entirely, disproving the old theory that memories are located in synapses. Researchers think memories may be in the neurons instead.

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