How exactly do memories get stored in our brains?

Sleep has a lot of important processes, but one of them is making memories.

It's Monday, April 8th. processes, but one of them is making memories.

It's Monday, April 8th.

Happy Eclipse Day.

You're listening to Science Friday.

I'm SciFi producer Shishana Bucksbound. It's impossible to remember everything that happens to us. So how does your brain decide which memories to keep and which to throw away?

In a bit, we'll talk with a neuroscientist about his latest research on how memories form in our sleep.

But first, how AI can use chest x-rays to predict the risk of

cardiovascular disease. Here's Ira Flato. The last time Dr. Eric Topel came on the

show he talked about the exciting new ways that artificial

intelligence might help physicians make better diagnoses, like using the retina to predict

disease onset.

Well, now there's some new evidence to suggest

that AI can mind data from chest x-rays too.

So he's back to fill us in on this.

Dr Eric Topel, founder and director of the Scripps Research

Translational Institute Professor of Molecular Medicine based in La Jolla, California.

Welcome back to Science Friday. always great to have you.

Oh, thanks so much, Ira.

In your newsletter this week, you wrote about a study that showed that AI could better gauge a patient's risk for heart disease by looking at a chest x-ray as

compared to standard ways doctors gauge risk.

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