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Daniel Amen: “The hippocampus is the major memory structure in the brain.”

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And then it's like, well, in which ways could it not be healthy if their frontal lobes are low? Less predictability, less consistency, more impulsive. And the hippocampus in women is larger than in, in men. The hippocampus is the major memory structure in the brain. It gets short term memory into long term memory. So you're just more likely to say things you shouldn't say and hurt her feelings and then she won't forget it. (1:25:24–1:25:29)

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Asserts that the hippocampus is responsible for converting short-term memory into long-term memory.

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