• Question: will your research affect people?

    Asked by Cheeky Monkey :) to Robert on 14 Nov 2015.
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      Robert Lees answered on 14 Nov 2015:

      If I can find out why connections are made between specific parts of our brain cells and not others, then we can better understand what goes wrong in learning/memory and neurodegenerative diseases (when brain cells stop working and sometimes die). It would help us to identify why certain people struggle with these problems and not others and work towards finding out who is more likely to have problems and help them.

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