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What if your brain is the reason some pain feels unbearable? Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a hidden brain ...

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The hippocampal formation also includes the entorhinal cortex. As part of the limbic system, the hippocampus is involved in memory encoding and storage.

This past week, the scientific journal Nature published the work of an international team of scientists led by Charles Lynch and Conor Liston, from Cornell University, in which they identify a series ...