Science news articles about 'erasing memories'

... the 13 August issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The Cambridge scientists found that by disrupting or erasing memories associated with drug use during recall, they could prevent the memories from ...

... process but instead seemed to be due to rapid erasure of the stored memories. Further, the erased memories were limited to those being retrieved while others remained intact. The results demonstrate ...

... war on a lie?George Orwell's 1984 had its memory hole, in which past news was buried and false ... Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, erasing memories of a relationship gone sour involved ...

Scientists have shown that injecting an experimental drug into the brain can completely erase long-term memory in animals. This research could lead to new treatments for those who suffer from painful ...

World's longest insect found; drug can erase memories; beetles threaten New England trees; and more.

... used to treat brain cancers in humans. "We found that exercise following radiation prevented a decline in erasable memory in mice and this is analogous to the type of memory problems people have ...

... , with some sort of on-off switch, offering possibilities for manipulating it to enhance or even, perhaps, erase memory. "Before now, no one knew that NMDA receptors change in response to the ...