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A new approach to Alzheimer's disease treatment could be on the horizon, inspired by a compound found in common herbs.

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As in larger brains, mouse visual cortex neurons with the same function cluster in columns. For over 50 years, it has been known that in the cerebral cortex of many mammals, neurons with the same ...

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