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Toying with memory in the hippocampus

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Mice lacking NMDA receptors in hippocampal area CA1 are deficient in spatial memory. They also have nonspatial memory deficits, which are overcome by environmental enrichment.

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Figure 1: Environmental enrichment increases the connections within the hippocampus and neocortex.

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