New research has proven for the first time that zinc is a vital nutrient for healthy nerve transmission, especially involved with learning, memory, and the formation of new nerve connections (synaptic plasticity). “We discovered that zinc is essential to control the efficiency of communication between two critical populations of nerve cells in the hippocampus,” said James McNamara, M.D., senior author and chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Duke.
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