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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Hill Street Studios/Digital Vision/Getty Images) As we get older, our episodic memory – managed by the hippocampus region – ...

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The clue researchers chased sits in a small corner of the brain that quietly steers almost everything else.

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