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Ep. 151: Neuroscience, Memory and Psychedelics (feat. Manoj Doss PhD)

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How to Recreate Memories

The hippocampus has what are known as play cells. Play cells will fire when you're in a given environment that a particular neuron will fire for something. The person who discovered this, John O'Keefe, he got the Nobel Prize along with Maybritt and I forgot what her ex-husband's name is. But they retain the same last names because that's what they're published on. And it's literally mapping out space right before your eyes. It'll create a map of that environment which can then be used to recall memories.

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