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Bone Hormone Influences Brain Development and Cognition
During pregnancy, the bone hormone osteocalcin is produced by the mother; it crosses the placenta, to reach the fetus, where it promotes the formation of the hippocampus and the development of spatial...
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Dietary Flavanols Reverse Age-Related Memory Decline
Digital Materials: Video (1:58), Image 1, Image 2, Image 3 Dietary cocoa flavanols—naturally occurring bioactives found in cocoa—reversed age-related memory decline in healthy older adults, according...
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Research from Eric Kandel’s lab at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) has uncovered further evidence of a system in the brain that persistently maintains memories for long periods of time. And...
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Select Memories Can Be Erased, Leaving Others Intact
Two Aplysia sensory neurons with synaptic contacts on the same motor neuron in culture after isolation from the nervous system of Aplysia. The motor neuron has been injected with a fluorescent molecule...
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Research suggests that high-level visual features are recalled before simple details, offering new insights into human perception.
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