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A major step forward in brain injury treatment may have been made after a team of US and Australian researchers isolated a new pathway used to learn and store memories.

This secondary process of learning is being hailed as a major breakthrough, as it may be possible to coordinate treatments for brain injury and conditions such as Alzheimer's using the knowledge.

Bryce Vissel, lead researcher at Sydney's Garvan Institute, told Agence France Presse: "In terms of understanding learning and memory mechanisms in the brain, it's quite a fundamental shift in our understandings.

"The exact implication of this research is that there is a separate mechanism of learning in the brain, it seems to be employed on what we call second learning."

Recent research from the University of Montana found that small doses of methamphetamine can reverse the physical effects of brain injury and even help limit damage to the brain caused by a stroke.

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