New Neurons, Old Memories (IMAGE)

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New Neurons, Old Memories

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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.

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Alam et al., <i>JNeurosci</i> (2018)

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