Robyn Klein and Michael Vasek (IMAGE)

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Robyn Klein and Michael Vasek

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Robyn Klein, M.D., Ph.D., and Michael Vasek, Ph.D., look at images of mouse synapses. Their research showed that the memory loss suffered by some survivors of West Nile encephalitis may be caused by the loss of synapses between neurons.

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Robert J. Boston

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