Quieting Memory-Related Brain Structure Can Improve Memory (Hyperactive Hippocampus: Response or Root Cause?)

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University reported that they were able to improve memory in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment – a neurological condition somewhere between normal age-­‐related memory loss and outright dementia that often progresses to Alzheimer’s disease – by treating them with low doses of the anti-­‐epileptic drug Keppra (levetiracetam, from Brussels, Belgium-­‐based…