Memory is one of the most crucial aspects of our health and human identity. Through memory, we create our individuality, our specific relationships wi

Cells all over the body store 'memories': What does this mean for health?

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2025-01-06 21:30:31

Memory is one of the most crucial aspects of our health and human identity. Through memory, we create our individuality, our specific relationships with the world we inhabit, and we learn to stay safe and make healthy choices.

Increasingly, however, researchers are wondering if there is a whole-body memory, that is, if different parts of our bodies can also make and store a type of memory, and if so, how these other memories may be affected by and, in turn, impact aspects of our health.

Recently emerging evidence seems to suggest that human memory may be an even more complex affair than we have so far imagined.

In November 2024, a team of researchers from the Center for Neural Science at New York University (NYU) published a paper in Nature Communications showing that nerve tissue and kidney tissue cells also store a kind of memory.

Speaking to Medical News Today, lead author Nikolay Kukushkin, DPhil, clinical associate professor of life science at NYU, told us that his “lab has been interested in memory at its most basic level for many years.”

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