Sentences with phrase «term fear memories»

The drop in dopamine causes anxiety and confusion, now recalling short - term fear memories, and oxytocin causes the ensuing feelings to register deeply in short - term memory, and so on.

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When the scientists stimulated those cells with light, the critters cowered in fear, showing that the long - term memories were already there.

But here is a question with a surprising answer: Would we remember our fear if we had no long - term memory?

Now a study led by Bong - Kiun Kaang at Seoul National University has altered that view: Every time a long - term memory or an associated emotion, like fear, is retrieved, proteins found in the synapses between neurons are degraded, allowing that memory to be updated by incoming information.

New research shows that between fear and recall lies a no - man's - land where long - term memories can vanish

Light stimulation did not boost the number of spines in normal mice or strengthen the fear memory, nor did indiscriminately shining light in the dentate gyrus result in any long - term memory improvement.

In each update of the volume we would be sweating ink (fearing the two months following the receipt of the new dictionary, in which we would have to identify the new terms first), learn where the terms are now located and remove from our memory the ones that have fallen into disuse.

However, a seizure can also be as subtle as numbness of a part of the body, a brief or long term loss of memory, seeing sparkling or flashes, sensing an unpleasant odor or a sensation of fear and total state of confusion which in some cases leads to death during seizure.