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Chasing Memory

A four-part series from the Los Angeles Times by Staff Writer Terry McDermott

Mark Boster / LAT

FIRST OF FOUR PARTS

Come to the lab. This could get interesting.

— neuroscientist Gary Lynch

PART TWO
Testing the hypothesis. Things in Lynch's lab go haywire.

PART THREE
The lab begins an unparalleled run of success.

PART FOUR
The culmination. Can an actual memory inside the brain be seen?

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Books

• "This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession," by Daniel J. Levitin (Dutton, 2006)

• "In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind," by Eric R. Kandel (Norton, 2006)

• Synaptic Self : How Our Brains Become Who We Are," by Joseph LeDoux (Penguin, 2002)

• "Memory: The Key to Consciousness," by Richard F. Thompson and Stephen A. Madigan (Joseph Henry Press, 2005)

• "The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers," by Daniel L. Schacter (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)

• "Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past," by Daniel L. Schacter (Basic Books, 1997)

• "Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease," by Rudolph Tanzi and Ann B. Parson (Perseus, 2000)

• "The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic," by David Shenk (Doubleday, 2001)

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