With the passage of time, the fear can come back, we think, because you never actually change
the original fear memory.
A possibly more effective method is to try to change
the original fear memory.
Not exact matches
Which can make it easy to forget that the
original Star Trek series brought the first interracial kiss to broadcast TV, or that the first Star Wars film was steeped in the world's collective
memory of the
fear of Nazi Germany in WWII.
But when the returning mice received an infusion of a proteasome inhibitor, a molecule that blocks degradation of protein at the synapse, they were unable to update the
original memory and could not shake their
fear of the box.
In addition, there may be relapses because the
original trace of
fear is still anchored in the
memory,» reports Prof. Hurlemann.