Scientists hail breakthrough in brain study

A team of scientists have made "a major step forward" in understanding how the memory works, a journal reported yesterday.

Experimenting on rats, researchers at the University of Bristol blocked mechanisms that control the way nerve cells in the brain communicate, preventing the creatures' ability to visually recognise items and surroundings. Findings identified cellular and molecular mechanisms in the brain that may provide a key to understanding processes of recognition memory, the journal Neuron reports.

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