Radiotherapy Impacts Memory (IMAGE)

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Radiotherapy Impacts Memory

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Left: Both patients and healthy controls recall very old personal memories with similar amounts of detail, whereas patients have difficulty remembering specific episodic details for recently experienced personal events. Right: PFT patients have smaller volume in the hippocampus (shown in green), a brain region that is critical for memory formation.

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Melanie Sekeres

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