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S4E04: The Where and When of Alzheimer’s Disease

Two Scientists Walk Into a Bar

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Asheimer's Disease

Asgani e: The idea is that the hippocamphus and the medial temporal obe are important for the acquisition of memories. But over the longer term, those memories are distributed in circuits and other airs of the brain,. And they are no longer dependent on the medial temporalobe and the hippo campus. So you might imagine, if they are stored as patterns of activity cortically, why we see those longer term memories affected later in hesease? Asgani E: They don't get disrupted until the pathology gets to that area of the corte where they might be stored.

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