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Hello, Hippocampus

  • April 9, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Your brain stores long-term memories in the hippocampus, which resembles a seahorse and gets its name from the Greek for horse (hippo) and sea (kampos). The organ is among the first to be damaged by Alzheimer’s disease; that’s why victims suffer memory loss and confusion.

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