You most likely can remember your heartbreak vividly. When you’re reeling from the loss of a relationship that you didn’t want to end, your emotional and bodily reactions are a tangle, and throes of such agonizing heartbreak can be devastating, imprinting itself so thoroughly in your brain that it becomes impossible to forget.
However, have you ever considered what psychological changes occur in your brain while such a memory is formed?
A team of researchers from the University of Southern California has tackled this question for the first time by creating memories in genetically engineered zebra fish and then observing the changes in their transparent heads as brain cells light up.
In other words, the researchers have produced the first snapshots of memory in a living animal in real-time.
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