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Lost Memories Restored in Mice Leaves Hope for Human Potential

Lost Memories Restored in Mice Leaves Hope for Human Potential

| May 30, 2015 Comment

Lost Memories Restored in Mice Leaves Hope for Human Potential – In a feat that calls to mind the memory-tweaking technology Science Fiction, a team of researchers restored “lost memories” in the brains of mice. The mice in the study were given a drug that prevented them from consolidating a fearful memory. But when neurons […]

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Innovative Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Patients: Straight Out of Adam Sandler Movie

| April 18, 2015 Comment

Innovative Caregiving for Alzheimer’s Patients: Straight Out of Adam Sandler Movie – The Hebrew Home at Riverdale is using an idea from Sandler’s movie 50 First Dates to deal with their Alzheimer’s patients. In the movie, Drew Barrymore plays the role of a woman who loses her memory every day because of a brain injury. […]

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