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Dr. Wendy Suzuki: Boost Attention & Memory with Science-Based Tools

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What Do You Think Everybody Should Know About the Hippocampus?

Wel 'm a nero scientist, but for most people i my generation, i think they first heard about the hippocampus from the movie memento oa. I've always been a little perplexed about the hippocamphus, frankly. It's a beautiful structure with these kind of intertwining, twirly sub regions within it. What does it do? Well, it's easiest to understand what it does when you look at what happens when you don't have a hippocampus any more. If we can't remember what we've done, the information we've learned and and the events of our lives, it changes us.

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