THE NEW SCIENCE OF Forgetting.

THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING neuroscientist Eric Kandel, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Columbia University, established in the 1970s that changes in the chemical sig-in between neurons were the biological basis of all learning or memory making. It's the first known look at how a living vertebrate's brain restructured itself as the animal forms a memory. This temporary loss of memory was accompanied by the release of dopamine from a particular set of cells onto the cells thought to hold memory. [Extracted from the article]

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