As usual, this was an amazing post to read! Thanks for putting all of this state-of-the-art research together! I liked to think about the credo of "Somehow, we need to forget to reinforce memorising new things better". Well, more or less... :)
Anyways, I however have one very real question. So far, we seem to understand better how memory works with mice and we can start playing with it. This is after all what Izawa et al. did. But how all of this can be transferred to normal mice, and further, to other beasts (including humans). Would it work strictly the same?
PS: I loved the name ‘MCH-Cre mouse’
PS2: the links at the end of the post look weird on steemstem.io but this will be fixed when I will deploy the new markdown/html converter. I just do not know when I will finish it (hopefully this week). If you want to fix it already know, it is important not to mix markdown and HTML together. You can use this piece of code for instance:
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RE: Sleeping to forget - The delete button of the archivist in the brain.