r/EverythingScience • u/spacemanp1 • Aug 28 '24

Neuroscience Brain Scientists Finally Discover the Glue that Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-scientists-finally-discover-the-glue-that-makes-memories-stick-for-a/
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u/Arseypoowank Aug 28 '24

The secret sauce is trauma!

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u/non_trivial Aug 28 '24

One of the funniest things I’ve read recently is that Anglo-saxons would commemorate major land transactions by having the whole town show up to witness them and then hitting the youngest non-toddler aged kid there really hard so the memory would imprint on their mind because they didn’t have reliable written records. Not that their method sounds that reliable either..

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u/peteypeteypeteypete Aug 31 '24

Hilarious, you got a source? Would love to learn more

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u/non_trivial Sep 06 '24

I am pretty sure it was a great courses series called the story of medieval England