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Sense of Smell’s Links to Brain Diseases

Learning and experience (i.e., memory) are closely tied to our olfactory sense. Could changes in the sense give us clues to future memory problems?
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One Man’s Continuing Contribution to the Science of Memory

Report from Neuroscience 2010

The personal tragedy of the famous amnesic patient known for more than 50 years only by the initials H.M. revolutionized the science of memory. In a special lecture during the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego last month, researcher Suzanne Corkin summarized what H.M., whose full name was Henry Molaison, has […]
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Remembering the Past to Imagine the Future

Remembering experiences in our past and imagining ourselves in some future event both involve a kind of mental "time travel" based in our brains.
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Memory: Pandora’s Hippocampus?

Our ability to intervene—not only to treat the ill but also to build up the healthy—is becoming increasingly likely as neuroscience progresses. Memory in particular could be a prime target for biological intervention. But unless we proceed wisely, altering memory could become a Pandora’s Box of unintended consequences and abuse.

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