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Posted by: STONERS 2 years, 7 months agoNew research from Columbia University Medical Center may explain why people who are able to easily and accurately recall historical dates or long-ago events, may have a harder time with word recall or remembering the day's current events.
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April 1, 2007, 2:38 a.m."We were surprised to find that halting neurogenesis caused an improvement of working memory, which suggests that too much memory is not always a good thing, and that forgetting is important for normal cognition and behavior," said Gaël Malleret, Ph.D., a research scientist at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University Medical Center and the paper's co-first author. "Altogether, our findings suggest that new neurons in the hippocampus have different, and in some cases, opposite roles in distinct types of memory storage, and that excess neurogenesis can be detrimental to some memory processes."
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April 1, 2007, 8:33 p.m.Actually I don't think we ever lose anything we take into our brains. It is all still in there stored away by some method we do not totally understand yet just waiting to be used when needed. And I remember having seen somewhere that information is stored mostly in a pread spectrum type of manner with pieces of data spread out all over the brain and coded some way (either chemically or electrically) so that it can be recalled and assembled back together as coherent thought when needed. Sort of like the way the internet works by routing signals all over the place and then reassembling them at the receiving end.....
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