Word: hyden
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...Carl E. Hyden...
Sweden's Holger Hyden, 56, director of the Institute of Neurobiology at the University of Goteborg, has found even more convincing evidence that proteins play a role in learning. Hyden (pronounced he-dayn) trained rats and then killed them so that their brains could be studied. He found that certain nervous-system proteins were produced in greater amounts during the first part of learning, when the animals were striving to cope with a new problem; overtraining the animals produced no higher levels of the substances. Hyden then injected animals with antibodies against the protein, which is called...