Sentences with phrase «erase fearful memories»

«Turning down the brain to erase fearful memories: Weakening communication between two parts of the brain in mice reduced their fear levels.»

The research, described at a news briefing during the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting, suggests, in principle, that scientists may someday be able to erase fearful memories associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or disordered memories associated with drug use.

Now, in a study published online by the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science say that by weakening the communication between neurons in two parts of a mouse's brain, they've been able to erase a fearful memory.

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Pointing to the change in amygdala activity, which is central to the brain's system of storing and recalling fearful memories (see How Fear Works to learn about this process), the researchers say the memory was not simply disconnected from fear, but that it was actually erased in its entirety.