{"id":630204,"date":"2010-01-13T21:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T02:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2010-01-13T21:05:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T02:05:16","slug":"dark-matter-of-the-brain-continued-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/630204","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter of the Brain, Continued | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.the-scientist.com\/content\/images\/general\/56270-1.jpg?resize=200%2C140\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\"\/>There&#8217;s a neat <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v463\/n7278\/abs\/nature08673.html?lang=en\">paper<\/a> in <em>Nature<\/em> today suggesting that astrocytes, part of the brain&#8217;s hidden majority, plays a big role in the formation of memories. <em>The Scientist<\/em> has <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/blog\/display\/56270\/\">details<\/a>. For background, check out <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2009\/sep\/19-dark-matter-of-the-human-brain\">my September Discover column<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/YH6gJeWvrmc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a neat paper in Nature today suggesting that astrocytes, part of the brain&#8217;s hidden majority, plays a big role in the formation of memories. The Scientist has details. For background, check out my September Discover column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2DWA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}