An experimental drug completely regenerates parts of the brain crucial to forming memories, according to researchers who performed tests on rats. Moreover, the drug’s effects linger after it clears from a rat’s system, so it may lead to a convenient treatment for people with disease-related memory loss, they say.
As people reach age 30, the neural mechanisms that form memories begin to deteriorate.
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