When something traumatic happenes, it leaves a fearful memory that can stay in your brain for your entire lifetime and have draining effect on a person’s life. Doctors focused on the nerve circuits in the part of the brain known to underly fear. They used a sound to cue fear in mice, and then observed that certain cells conducted more current after the mouse was exposed to a loud, sudden noise.
The doctors further examined the proteins in the nerve cells before and after exposure to the loud tone. They found increases in the amount of proteins. The proteins are unstable and can be removed from nerve cells, the scientists said they might permanently remove fear by combining behavior therapy and protein removal. The idea is to remove the proteins and weaken the connections in the brain created by trauma, thereby erasing the memory itself. This could help with patients who have been through war, death of a family member, or anything else that could cause post traumatic stress disorder. I'm also wondering if it could be used in a bad way though. Also, with rape victims, those memories are needed to persecute the perpatrator. Erasing the painful memory would be erasing evidence.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-erase-memory.html
that is true it would be cool to get rid of bad memories so people don't have to suffer. but if they use it in a bad way. also fear is kind of essential in a persons life. you need to experience it so you know what other emotions are...like there can be no happy without sad or sad without happy.....you get what i'm saying???
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. Everything always reaches an equilibrium.
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