In the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, patients are often unable to remember recent experiences. However, a new study from MIT suggests that those memories are still stored in the brain — they just can’t be easily accessed.

The MIT neuroscientists report in Nature that mice in the early stages of Alzheimer’s can form new memories just as well as normal mice but cannot recall them a few days later.

“Memory retrieval by activating engram cells in mouse models of early Alzheimer’s disease”
By Roy et al | Nature, 2016 Mar 24