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New memories from new neurons

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Neurons are born throughout adulthood in specific regions of mammalian brains. It now turns out that — in rats at least — these new neurons are essential for the formation of one type of memory.

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Figure 1: New nerve cells that are born in the hippocampus of the adult mammalian brain are crucial in certain types of memory formation.

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