Neurons Don't Work Alone: What Ne...

Neurons Don't Work Alone: What Neuroscientists Know About Memory Formation

Neuroscience Perspectives by Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester
E38
Jan 22, 2026
32:59

Episode notes

🧠How do memories form in the brain? How do individual neurons create memories? In this episode of Neuroscience Perspectives, Ueli Rutishauser, PhD, professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology & Biomedical Sciences, and director of Human Neurophysiology Research and the Center for Neural Science and Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, explores groundbreaking neuroscience research on memory formation, learning, and neural activity in the human brain. Using single-neuron recordings, Dr. Rutishauser explains to Dr. John Foxe how the hippocampus and other brain regions encode episodic memory and cognition. This conversation dives into how brain cells communicate, how memories are formed and retrieved, and why studying neurons at the single-cell level is transforming cognitive neuroscience.

We caught up with Dr. Rutishauser in San Diego at the Society for Neuroscience Conference #SfN25

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🧠Experts in this Episode:

Ueli Rutishauser, PhD: https://researchers.cedars-sinai.edu/Ueli.Rutishauser

John Foxe, PhD: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/112360965-john-j-foxe

🧠Labs Mentioned:

Rutishauser Lab: https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/health-sciences-university/research/labs/rutishauser.html

Frederick J. and Marion A. Schindler Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab: https://urmc.info/1RG

Keywords

neuroscience
neurons
brain
science
cognition
brain health
memory
epilepsy