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ARTICLE | Tools & Techniques

Seeking simplicity in memory

August 17, 1998 7:00 AM UTC

One criticism of attempts to develop treatments for complex physiological or behavioral disorders is the lack of a straightforward molecular target. For example, a single drug that affects a process as complex as memory formation and retention might seem out of the question.

A recent Nature paper by University of Tokyo researchers may have provided a single target involved in memory formation. But rather than simplifying the memory field the finding may have just added one more piece to its complexity...