Parkinson\'s disease
Jan 31 2008, Arpita Mukherjee

In an effort to study the process of memory formation scientists of Japan’s Nara Institute of Science and Technology in western Japan and Kinki University have implanted a small camera into the hippocampus of a mouse’s brain. The observations, the...

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