Electrical Forces Improve Memory in Old Age

Overview

Journal Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol

Date 2025 Jan 21

PMID 39838022

Authors

Colin D McCaig

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Abstract

This penultimate chapter is based on a single paper published in Nature in 2022. I have used it specifically as an exemplar, in this case to show that memory improvement in old age may be regulated by a multiplicity of electrical forces. However, I include it because I believe that one could pick almost any other substantial single paper and show that a completely disparate set of biological mechanisms similarly depend crucially on multiple electrical forces.

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