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The Brain Has a Special Kind of Memory for Past Infections

Neuroscience
In a new study, researchers showed for the first time that—just as the brain remembers people, places, smells, and so on—it also stores what they call “memory traces” of the body’s past infections. Reactivating the same brain cells that encode this information is enough to summon the peripheral immune system to defend at-risk tissues.