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Thursday, October 23, 2008

What a wonderful advance! One will be able to erase from memory those gut wrenching, guilt ridden, faux pax memories born of too many cocktails!

Amping up a chemical in the mouse brain and then triggering the animal's recall can cause erasure of those, and only those, specific memories, according to research in the most recent issue of the journal Neuron. While the study was done in mice that were genetically modified to react to the chemical, the results suggest that it might one day be possible to develop a drug for eliminating specific, long-term memories, something that could be a boon for those suffering from debilitating phobias or post-traumatic stress disorder.



http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21593/?nlid=1452

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