Janice Juraska and Nioka Chisholm, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Janice Juraska and Nioka Chisholm, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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University of Illinois psychology professor and Beckman Institute affiliate Janice Juraska (left) and doctoral student Nioka Chisholm found that long-term exposure to estrogen and a synthetic progesterone increased synapse number in the prefrontal cortex of aged rats.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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