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The discovery will improve understanding of brain diseases such as depression, schizophrenia or Alzheimer's disease.

According to a recent study, when a person drinks a lot, those cells of the nervous system end up deactivating.

Just as the gym improves physical fitness, the mind needs stimulation to avoid being flabby, especially as we get older.

There were already other studies that pointed to this theory, and now Canadian and Swiss researchers have confirmed it through an experiment with mice.

Some fish use their pectoral fins to obtain information from the environment through touch, more or less like humans do with our fingers.

In contrast, a low level increases the chances of developing the disease.

It would be an ideal treatment for patients with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Is it possible to restore memory to people who have lost it due to amnesia or even, going further, victims of Alzheimer's disease? These possibilities were entirely unlikely, until now. A team of scientists led by Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa has managed to advance this goal by successfully returning memories lost due to amnesia to a group of laboratory mice.