The Institute of Neuroscience in Bordeaux is one of the places were fundamental research into how the memory works takes place. From behavioural studies in mice to molecular level, the researchers decode the very first traces of memory, an essential concept in discovering how our brains work in order to one day lead a more efficient fight against certain effects of ageing on memory. At the CNIC (Centre de Neurosciences Intégratives et Cognitives / integrative and cognitive neuroscience centre), thanks to studies on rats, the researchers have demonstrated that the brain is able to continually recreate and remodel its neuron circuits. As a result, repeated learning tasks help fight against alteration of the memory. Observations by other researchers of a still unknown phenomenon, neuro-genesis (the generation of new neurons) could perhaps be an explanation.

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