Better Memory Makers (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Better Memory Makers

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When researchers looked at certain neurons (similar to the one shown on top) in rats treated with riluzole, they found an important change in one brain region, the hippocampus: more clusters of so-called spines, receiving connections that extend from the branches of a neuron (bottom).

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Dr. John H. Morrison's lab, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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