Researchers uncover why mental maps fade with age: comparing young, middle-aged and old mice 🐭, the researchers found that activity in the medial entorhinal cortex (“the GPS of the brain” 🗺️) becomes less stable and less attuned to the environment in elderly animals 🐾.
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Researchers uncover why mental maps fade with age
Studying mice of different ages, Stanford Medicine scientists and colleagues found that neurons involved in spatial memory become less reliable later in life.