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Biostasis: A Roadmap for Research in Preservation and Potential Revival of Humans
McKenzie AT, Wowk B, Arkhipov A, Wróbel B, Cheng N, Kendziorra EF. Brain Sci. 2024 Sep 21;14(9):942.
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The Case for Glutaraldehyde: Structural Encoding and Preservation of Long-Term Memories
Aurelia Song
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Long-term memories are physically robust; memory storage does not require sustained electrical activity.
Key Papers (from Aurelia Song's website)
- Bohl, Michael A., et al. "The history of therapeutic hypothermia and its use in neurosurgery." Journal of Neurosurgery (2018)
- Mizrahi, Eli M., et al. "Hypothermic-induced electrocerebral silence, prolonged circulatory arrest, and cerebral protection during cardiovascular surgery." Electroencephalography and clinical neurophysiology (1989)
- Percy, Andrew, et al. "Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in patients with high cognitive needs: full preservation of cognitive abilities." The Annals of Thoracic Surgery (2009)
- Raichle, Marcus E. "The pathophysiology of brain ischemia." Annals of Neurology (1983)
- Wu, Xianren, et al. "Emergency preservation and resuscitation with profound hypothermia, oxygen, and glucose allows reliable neurological recovery after 3 h of cardiac arrest from rapid exsanguination in dogs." Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (2008)
Biological Information Storage Mechanisms:
Key Papers (from Aurelia Song's website)
- Josselyn, Sheena A., et al. "Finding the engram." Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2015)
- Langille, Jesse J., et al. "The Synaptic Theory of Memory: A Historical Survey and Reconciliation of Recent Opposition." Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience (2018)
- Bailey, Craig H., et al. "Structural components of synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation." Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology (2015)
- Bourne, Jennifer, and Kristen M. Harris. "Do thin spines learn to be mushroom spines that remember?" Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2007)
- Hayashi-Takagi, Akiko, et al. "Labelling and optical erasure of synaptic memory traces in the motor cortex." Nature (2015)
- Han, Jin-Hee, et al. "Selective erasure of a fear memory." Science (2009)
- Litt, Abninder, et al. "Is the brain a quantum computer?" Cognitive Science (2006)
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