Sentences with phrase «with fearful memories»
For example, if it was raining at the time a child was in a car accident, a child might connect rain with the fearful memories of the car accident.
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Specifically, the findings explain how a particular gene — called fkbp5 — is involved in a phenomenon known as «fear extinction,» through which animals and humans disassociate with fearful memories of a traumatic experience, such as war, assault or a natural disaster.
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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.
Results of their study demonstrate, they say, that alcohol strengthens emotional memories associated with fearful experiences and prevents mice from pushing aside their fears.
«These drugs, together with alcohol, may affect the ability to let go of fearful memories in different ways.»
Experiments in mice by researchers at Johns Hopkins suggest that if the goal is to ease or extinguish fearful emotional memories like those associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol may make things worse, not better.
However, the mice did freeze when the memory cells were activated with laser light while the animals were in a cage that should not have had any fearful associations.
«Much of extinction training — the process of learning that a fearful cue is no longer fearful — in adult rodents closely parallels aspects of exposure - based psychotherapy for humans, where an exposure to a stimulus that was associated with trauma shares many aspects of the initial traumatic memories.»
Drugs that block these receptors have been shown to block the formation of fearful memories and to reduce the anxiety associated with alcohol withdrawal in rodents.»
It takes a lot of courage to admit; I was fearful I wouldn't be able to savor the first memories with my newborn because «bouncing back» would be at the forefront of my thoughts.
This film thus does ask this question, and it does so with the intelligence that has characterized the filmmaker over the years: What does vengeance mean when the memory of the avenger is slowly vanishing, the self slowly losing itself, fading from its fearful recipient, a soulless search to vindicate wrongs he no longer remembers?