How a Pond Snail Could Someday Improve Your Memory

The memory mechanisms of great pond snails could one day help develop drugs for trauma and dementia patients. If you think of a snail, and then think of a human, there are some obvious differences. But decades of studies say our memories might have more in common than some might guess. Memory, and its formation, has been the subject of neuroscientific research for quite some time, yet science has only made incremental steps in this extremely complicated field. One of the recent advances is the discovery that memory is likely similar across organisms, at least at a molecular level.