Get your Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind references ready, because scientists accept just ample out a way to abolish bad memories using—you estimated it—electroshock therapy. Get accessible for on-demand forgetting. It's a absolute affair now.
A aggregation of Dutch neuroscientists afresh devised an electroconvulsive analysis (ECT) to "target and agitate patients' anamnesis of a advancing episode." Nature explains how patients were showed two alarming narratives in a slideshow and again subjected to the new technique:
The aggregation after prompted patients to anamnesis alone one of the belief by replaying allotment of that accelerate show. Immediately afterwards, if the reactivated anamnesis is anticipation to be vulnerable, the patients accustomed electroconvulsive therapy.
One day later, if accustomed a multiple-choice anamnesis test, patients were decidedly worse at canonizing data from the reactivated story, assuming abreast chance. Patients' anamnesis of the added story, however, remained abundantly unscathed.
The analysis was conducted on 42 patients with astringent depression, so there's a adventitious it could plan abnormally on accustomed patients. It's aswell account pointing out that ECT is no fun. It induces seizures and, well, doctors are abominable patients' accuracy with electricity.
A advance like this was due, though. For years, scientists accept been adage we're on the bend of developing a way to abolish memories, and endure year, they successfully asleep the memories of sleeping mice. Then, just a few months ago, they managed to analyze the gene that helps us forget. But a point-and-click adjustment for abatement accurate memories, that's accepted elusive. Until now.
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Researchers at Stanford affirmation they've ample out how to abolish the alarming memories of mice… Apprehend added Read more
As is generally the case with groundbreaking research, the next footfall is added research. But the scientists complex in the acreage of anamnesis abandoning hold out hope that advances like these will advance to breakthroughs in the analysis of altitude like astringent abasement and post-traumatic accent disorder. After all, sometimes, benightedness absolutely is bliss. [Nature via Wired UK]
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