NEW YORK: The brain region that helps us remember locations and distances can also guide us how emotionally close we are to others, a study has found.

The team from Mount Sinai Hospital focused on evidence for the existence of a “social map” in the hippocampus, the part of the brain that remembers locations in physical space and the order in which events occur.

“We found that the hippocampus tracks relationships, i ..

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