Medicine & TechnologyNew research recently suggested that the role of Fragile X mental retardation protein or FMRP is more sophisticated compared to what was previously known. Essentially, looking at memory neurons in the mouse brain's hippocampus region, Rockefeller researchers discovered that the FMRP protein has two different tasks.
A new study suggests that adolescents who stop studying math after 16 show reduced levels of a critical chemical in the brain that is responsible for cognitive development, leaving them at a disadvantage.