Who Authorized the Toddler Memory Wipe?The biological reason we forget being babies

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From the show

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Childhood amnesia is the inability to retrieve episodic memories from the first few years of life. Rapid neurogenesis in the developing hippocampus destabilizes existing neural connections to build long-term architecture. The brain prioritizes structural development over retaining specific early data, effectively overwriting the record of your most formative developmental years.

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