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Forget all about it: Traumatic memories can be erased
Nov 09, 2009 |
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It is well known that fear memories are permanent. However, a recent paper in Science, evaluated by three Faculty Members for F1000, reports an extraordinary finding that supports the use of a drug to control recollections of tra ...
New strategy to weaken traumatic memories
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Imagine that you have been in combat and that you have watched your closest friend die in front of you. The memory of that event may stay with you, troubling you for the rest of your life. Posttraumatic stress disorder ...
Traumatic response to bad memories can be minimized
Jul 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Irvine researchers have identified the brain mechanism that switches off traumatic feelings associated with bad memories, a finding that could lead to the development of drugs to treat panic disorders.
Differences in recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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When a child experiences a traumatic event, such as sexual abuse, it may not be until well into adulthood that they remember the incident. It is not known how adults are able to retrieve long-forgotten memories of abuse and ...
Forget about it: Inducible and selective erasure of memories in mice
Oct 22, 2008 |
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Targeted memory erasure is no longer limited to the realm of science fiction. A new study describes a method through which a selected set of memories can be rapidly and specifically erased from the mouse brain in a controlled ...
'Tetris' may help reduce flashbacks to traumatic events
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Playing ‘Tetris’ after traumatic events could reduce the flashbacks experienced in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), preliminary research by Oxford University psychologists suggests.
New understanding of how we remember traumatic events
Oct 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered a new way to explain how emotional events can sometimes lead to disturbing long term memories.
'Erasing' drug-associated memories may stop drug addiction relapses
Aug 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 'Erasing' drug-associated memories may prevent recovering drug abusers from relapsing, researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered.
Stress-related disorders affect brain's processing of memory
Dec 03, 2008 |
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Researchers using functional MRI (fMRI) have determined that the circuitry in the area of the brain responsible for suppressing memory is dysfunctional in patients suffering from stress-related psychiatric disorders. Results ...
Researchers discover how old memories are re-saved and changed
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at McGill University have discovered a series of molecular mechanisms that regulate how our brains call up, restore and even change old memories.
Researchers unravel mystery behind long-lasting memories
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Aug 11, 2009 |
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A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine may reveal how long-lasting memories form in the brain.
Researchers use 'Virtual Iraq' simulation to study post-traumatic stress disorder
May 14, 2007 |
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Weill Cornell Medical College researchers are using a virtual reality simulation called "Virtual Iraq" to better understand how symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develop. In their ongoing research trial, participating ...
Ecstasy could help patients with post-traumatic stress disorder
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Mar 09, 2009 |
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Ecstasy may help suffers of post-traumatic stress learn to deal with their memories more effectively by encouraging a feeling of safety, according to an article in the Journal of Psychopharmacology published today by SAG ...
Controlling our brain's perception of emotional events
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Research performed by Nicole Lauzon and Dr. Steven Laviolette of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario has found key processes in the brain that control the emotional significance ...
Moral philosopher questions memory manipulation
Apr 29, 2008 |
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Is medicated memory manipulation ethically sound? And perhaps more importantly, who should be charged with the decision to deliver such a treatment: patient or physician?
