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Brain region essential for social memory offers a potential target for autism, schizophrenia, other brain disorders

February 25, 2014 by

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have determined that a small region of the hippocampus known as CA2 is essential for social memory, the ability of an animal to recognize another of the same species.

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