Sentences with phrase «fearful memories using»
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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.
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«If dexamethasone works well in humans, we could potentially use it to prevent fearful memories in soldiers on the battlefield, patients in emergency rooms, or anywhere else where healthcare providers provide treatment within hours of traumatic events.»
They found that while the mice could not recall those memories in response to natural cues, such as being placed in the cage where a fearful event took place, the memories were still there and could be artificially retrieved using a technique known as optogenetics.
«Drugs used to «edit» fearful rat memories.»
A significant emphasis is on the biology of fearful memory, which we dissect using Pavlovian conditioning paradigms.