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MIT neuroscientists explain ‘Proustian effect’ of small details attached to big memories

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute of Learning and Memory have uncovered why relatively minor details of an episode are sometimes inexplicably linked to long-term memories. The work is slated to appear in the Jan. 13 iss…

MIT researchers develop a better way to see molecules at work in living brain cells

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — By creating a better way to see molecules at work in living brain cells, researchers affiliated with MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the MIT Department of Chemistry are helping elucidate molecular mechanisms o…