Steve Ramirez

Steve Ramirez

Steve Ramirez is a neuroscientist and first author of the 2013 paper on creating a false memory in the hippocampus.

Who they are

Steve Ramirez is a neuroscientist and first author of the 2013 paper on creating a false memory in the hippocampus. On this site the name is tied to Engram, Optogenetics.

Key papers

Liu, X., Ramirez, S., Pang, P. T., Puryear, C. B., Govindarajan, A., Deisseroth, K., & Tonegawa, S. (2012). Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall. Nature, 484(7394), 381-385.

Ramirez, S., Liu, X., Lin, P.-A., Suh, J., Pignatelli, M., Redondo, R. L., Ryan, T. J., & Tonegawa, S. (2013). Creating a false memory in the hippocampus. Science, 341(6144), 387-391.

Key ideas

Engram: The lasting physical change an experience leaves in a specific group of brain cells, whose reactivation brings the memory back.

Optogenetics: A method that makes chosen cells respond to light, used to switch tagged memory cells on in mice.

Sources

  1. Liu, X., Ramirez, S., Pang, P. T., Puryear, C. B., Govindarajan, A., Deisseroth, K., & Tonegawa, S. (2012). Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall. Nature, 484(7394), 381-385.
  2. Ramirez, S., Liu, X., Lin, P.-A., Suh, J., Pignatelli, M., Redondo, R. L., Ryan, T. J., & Tonegawa, S. (2013). Creating a false memory in the hippocampus. Science, 341(6144), 387-391.