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Scott Small: The Point of Forgetting

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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How to Learn a Modified Maze

In a mouse model or in a fly, and i think you know that mice and flies are very similar to us when it comes to memory. And so what you can do, what eric candel and many others have learned to do, as you can actually turn up particular pathways by replenishing a particular neuron with more of the forgetting protein. That will turn up memory. The quickest way to learn a modified maze is by having the forgetting knob turned up. So we can use those we can a use those animals to really understand a little bit about us.

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