Building Blocks of Memory in the Brain

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My name is Artem, I'm a computational neuroscience student and researcher. In this video we discuss engrams - fundamental units of memory in the brain. We explore what engrams are, how memory is allocated, where it is stored, and how different memories become linked with each other.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
00:39 - Historical background
01:44 - Fear conditioning paradigm
03:38 - Immediate-early genes as memory markers
08:13 - Engrams are necessary and sufficient for recall
10:16 - Excitabiliy and memory allocation
16:19 - Brain-wide engrams
18:12 - Linking memories together
24:20 - Summary
25:33 - Brilliant
27:09 - Outro
REFERENCES (in no particular order):
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2. Roy, D. S. et al. Brain-wide mapping reveals that engrams for a single memory are distributed across multiple brain regions. Nat Commun 13, 1799 (2022).
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4. Chen, L. et al. The role of intrinsic excitability in the evolution of memory: Significance in memory allocation, consolidation, and updating. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 173, 107266 (2020).
5. Rao-Ruiz, P., Yu, J., Yu, J. J., Kushner, S. A. & Josselyn, S. A. Neuronal competition: microcircuit mechanisms define the sparsity of the engram. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 54, 163-170 (2019).
6. Josselyn, S. A. & Frankland, P. W. Memory Allocation: Mechanisms and Function. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 41, 389-413 (2018).
7. Choi, J.-H. et al. Interregional synaptic maps among engram cells underlie memory formation. Science 360, 430-435 (2018).
8. Abdou, K. et al. Synapse-specific representation of the identity of overlapping memory engrams. Science 360, 1227-1231 (2018).
9. Yokose, J. et al. Overlapping memory trace indispensable for linking, but not recalling, individual memories. Science 355, 398-403 (2017).
10. Rashid, A. J. et al. Competition between engrams influences fear memory formation and recall. Science 353, 383-387 (2016).
11. Poo, M. et al. What is memory? The present state of the engram. BMC Biol 14, 40 (2016).
12. Park, S. et al. Neuronal Allocation to a Hippocampal Engram. Neuropsychopharmacol 41, 2987-2993 (2016).
13. Morrison, D. J. et al. Parvalbumin interneurons constrain the size of the lateral amygdala engram. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 135, 91-99 (2016).
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16. Yiu, A. P. et al. Neurons Are Recruited to a Memory Trace Based on Relative Neuronal Excitability Immediately before Training. Neuron 83, 722-735 (2014).
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18. Ramirez, S. et al. Creating a False Memory in the Hippocampus. Science 341, 387-391 (2013).
19. Liu, X. et al. Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall. Nature 484, 381-385 (2012).
20. Silva, A. J., Zhou, Y., Rogerson, T., Shobe, J. & Balaji, J. Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Memory Allocation in Neural Circuits. Science 326, 391-395 (2009).
CREDITS:
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Brain 3D models were modeled with Blender software using publicly available BrainGlobe atlases (brainglobe.info/atlas-api)
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I would love to see you take a deep dive into cognative/behavioral relationships to engram learning. A lot of people struggling with trauma related memory issues (inc. PTSD) would likely benefit from understanding how their brains physically learned (and could un-learn). In fact, it seems to me many therapists could also do with knowing more about learning and plasticity.

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The temporary excitability remind me of dropout which is a technique to improve deep learning by turning off neurons randomly. That improves the robustness of the network

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Such an amazing video on such an interesting field, thank you for this! I've recently studied a module on engrams and one paper I found really interesting - claiming to have satisfied the engram mimicry criterion - was Vetere et al. (2019) - "Memory formation in the absence of experience". I found this to be the most groundbreaking stuff so far, and the only evidence so far to suggest that mimicry may be possible. I'd love to know your thoughts! I'd also love to see a video on the clinically translatable parts of engrams - and the utilisation of the tag and manipulate/erase tools as treatments for OCD and addiction. I also thought this area had some really cool research, and seeing it in video format with your animations and explanations would be really useful!

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Thank you! I’m happy to know you enjoyed it :) Hmm, I haven’t encountered this particular paper. Thanks for pointing it out! I’ll take a look

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Artem, great work behind this video. Thanks for breaking down complex information and making it more accessible. I'm looking forward to bumping into you at some Neuro meeting in the US!

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This has got to be the coolest video on memories! Thank you.

[@GeoffryGifari]

wow... so many questions about this one... 1. Is memory encoded in the structure of neuron interconnections, or the pattern of action potentials buzzing through web of neurons? Given a network pattern of dendrites, axons, and synapses is the memory "still there" even when no signals are being passed? 2. How can repetition strenghten memory, when talking about the physical connections between neurons? 3. On gene activation when memory forms, what is the timescale of this process? remembering can be pretty fast.. can genes be expressed (and make lasting changes) just as fast? 4. How far can we "isolate parts of a memory": with mice fear conditioning, how can we be sure that the pain of shock is linked to the sound stimulus only, instead of sound stimulus + a given position in the lab + objects, shapes, and colors around the mouse at that time + ambient smell +.... , other things that might also be encoded in the engram? 5. If two different mice went through fear conditioning with the exact same setup, would we see a difference in the engrams of each mouse? 6. lets say we subject a mouse to fear conditioning, and observe the engram. We then wait for some time until the mouse forgets that experience (weeks? months?). If we do fear conditioning again on the same mouse, would the same engram be formed? 7. Can the idea of engrams be used to estimate the memory capacity of a brain? we know it can't be infinite because the brain is a physical substrate 8. Can we induce the growth of new linking neurons between two engrams chemically/biologically? so instead of the mouse retrieving two memories simultaneously and getting those memories linked, we "link" two memories artifically with those two memories have nothing to do with each other before 9. we know that the brain is not the only component of the central nervous system. Are memories (related to reflexes) encoded in the spinal cord in the same way as they are in the brain?

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7 is not guaranteed if mind body dualism is true. Then the combination of neuron activation acts as an indexing/lookup function. The combination of millions of neurons is fundamentally 10^1,000,000 and we have billions if not trillions. Even 10^80 would be a memory per atom in the universe

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If the brain codes parts of a memory in different areas of the brain this might explain why some sounds and smells would bring you back to something like a childhood memory. If differant areas are responsable for different portions of memory then a small triggering of one of those stimuli might cause a cascade of associated brain regions to in response

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In 7:45, could we just induce a comma so it can form new memories? In any case the tag approach is awesome

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Do we currently know how brains "check for overlapping" in separate engrams? Also, is it possible for completely unrelated memory clusters to randomly have similar engrams/engram positions, causing them to be intrinsically linked, and, if so, how often/how likely is this to occur?

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23:32 I have a question regarding to the size of engrams. Isn't the size set of engrams for a specific memory fixed? But it seems that the co-retrieval of 2 distinct engrams increases the engrams on both sets.Or because the new linking engrams only contain the linking information, so that doesn't count the original size of the 2 engrams?

[@ArtemKirsanov]

Amazing point, thank you! I also had this very question while I was creating the video, but I'm afraid I don't have a great answer. The source paper for this finding ( pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28126819/ ) just reports an "increased overlap" but doesn't compare overall sizes (or I just missed it). My intuition is that the "reorganization" would mean that some non-overlapping neurons become excluded from the engram to keep the density constant, while increasing the overlap. But your interpretation with "linking information" is equally plausible 🤔 If you find the answer, please let me know!

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19:44 does this mean that trying to learn some big topic at the *same time* everyday is more effective then at *random times* everyday?

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Los engramas son muy interesantes, buen video!

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Another top tier video. I’m curious how/if these mechanisms are influenced by, or vary in, brains with PTSD, addiction, or other maladaptive tendencies (ie: the relationship between PTSD and engram formation and linking, for example). Would we see larger engrams with more overlapping neurons? Less optimized neuronal selection and encoding? Thank you for the amazing content, as always. You’ve left me with much to think about and research!

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Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed this :)

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[@Gorulabro]

And yet. There are so many parallels that pop up in modern ML to concepts in neuroscience. In most cases it's "convergent evolution" -- something that "just worked" for the ML groups -- rather than something copied from nature. Different things are hard / easy for biological / artificial neural networks, but the essence seems to be in the process of being captured.

[@diadetediotedio6918]

@@Gorulabro Distant parallels For the most part, most modern neural network architectures are not even really based on how the brain works, and the few that are (such as spiking neural networks) are also relatively distant approximations of how our brains produce the effects we see in reality. The truth is that we are simply far from even coming close to simulating something like this.

[@Gorulabro]

@@diadetediotedio6918 My point is exactly that. We don't have to mimic nature to develop similar functionality. Latent representation, sparsified encoding, sequence positional encoding in transformer architectures, all those are high level concepts discussed on this channel that have representations in modern ML. Not one-to-one, because that would be as wastefull as trying to build planes with flapping wings instead of propellors.

[@diadetediotedio6918]

@@Gorulabro I don't disagree with you that it's not necessary for us to copy the nature of 1-1 to have similar "functionality". Now I would say that you need to be very careful with your definition of "functionality". Because then, there is no functionality similar to the brain in artificial neural networks if we consider functionality as the set of qualitative experiences that imply a certain general behavior in the system, for example, ANN's are terrible for having several things that would require them to have a qualitative representation of the world and whose functionality in fact cannot be simulated by a computer. On the other hand, we can make excellent mimics of "functionality" in the external sense, something that merely reproduces a desired external behavior, as ChatGPT does with producing texts that appear "intelligent" and aware. There are reasons why we don't make planes with flapping wings as well that go way beyond that, and some birds actually just glide most of the time and just use their wings as a way to lift themselves up, but nobody says planes are simulations of birds and nor that we are functioning like birds. The general similarity of a bird and an airplane is the same as that of a bird and a firearm projectile or a ballistic missile, both are "flying" in some sense, but it doesn't seem to me that it makes sense to say that having this "functionality" similarly let us translate this knowledge into terms of what goes on in birds, as many people try to do by saying that AI's somehow have an inner workings close to what goes on in human consciousness. It takes a lot of care to do these analyses, but in terms I don't disagree with you that these are efficient means of approaching something that refers to the intelligent external behavior that we seek to automate.

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machine learning is about interpolation on a dataset, it can only learn statistically. statistical learning is the lowest form of intelligence and is very different from interaction and survival in a real world environment. the best state of the art ml model is much stupider than the simplest of bacteria

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I can’t wrap my head around memory. Wild stuff.

[@smilefaxxe2557]

The Brain is such an amazingly interesting organ 🧠❤ And you do a great job at explaining concepts regarding the brain, thank you! 🔥👍

[@nateshrager512]

Yea, it's the most amazing. But then again, look who is telling you that. Might be some bias 😂

[@smilefaxxe2557]

@@nateshrager512 Well, it might be 😅 But its always cool to listen to someone who is passionate about his topic 👍

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[@CopperKettle]

Thank you, quite interesting.

[@BlooFlame]

Beautiful work, you've also identified the trigger conditioning for PTSD and Addiction. ;) Love your work.

[@weylin6]

I wonder causes issues like difficulty forming or recalling memories, or why some things are more easily learned? If you find something interesting, it seems to make you more likely to remember it?

[@hugocome123]

Thanks you for this video, I am not usely writing comments but I have to say that you really did an incredible job of pedagogy in this video. Usely I need to see your videos sevral time to understand all and in this one it was so clear that only one is enough.

[@ArtemKirsanov]

Thank you!

[@ilyas_elouchihi]

As a Cognitive Psychology student, your channel has been super helpful to expand my understanding, props to you ❤

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[@richardrobertson1331]

I have difficulty remaining focused on each specific new thought you present and the direction you chose to adequately cover your message. Too frequently I needed to pause the video and reflect, then I seem to be taken in another direction when I get back to the video. Your visuals and text open too many avenues for my limited thought processes to remain on tract. It reminds me of trying to follow a city map while visiting a foreign country. Getting from point A to point B eliminates exploring all the interesting sights that the side streets may have. Your visuals are superb, text is inspiring, but voice inflection is somewhat unfamiliar. Thanks for all your considerable work that this video has displayed.

[@Jediluvs2kill]

Omg this is soo awesome knowledge