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'Memory molecule' stores memories in neocortex

The "memory storage molecule" -- PKMzeta -- maintains long-term memories in the neocortex and its presence is continually required in order for the memory to endure, according to a finding by researchers at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel and SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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