The Brain’s Hidden Chemistry: What the Hippocampus Reveals About Memory, Energy, and Disease
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This episode explores the role of the hippocampus in memory, learning, and its vulnerability to disease.
The human brain is often described as one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Yet even within this astonishing organ, a small curved structure deep in the temporal lobe has drawn extraordinary scientific attention for decades. This structure, the hippocampus, plays a central role in memory formation, learning, emotional processing, and spatial navigation. It is also one of the brain regions most vulnerable to disease.
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