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The value of math and spatial learning with Loren Frank
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator discusses what drew him to study the brain and his current work at the University of California, San Francisco.
By
Brady Huggett
1 April 2024 | 1 min read
Loren Frank is professor of physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. In this episode of “Synaptic,” Frank discusses fighting his way through a difficult stint at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and how he first encountered the hippocampus.
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