New neurons archive old memories

Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 19:20 in Psychology & Sociology

The ability to obtain new memories in adulthood may depend on neurogenesis — the generation of new neurons in the hippocampus — to clear out old memories that have been safely stored in the cortex, according to research in male rats published in JNeurosci. Previous research suggests that the hippocampus has a finite capacity to acquire […]

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