How to erase a memory –- and restore it: Researchers reactivate memories in rats
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 03:04
in Health & Medicine
Researchers have erased and reactivated memories in rats, profoundly altering the animals’ reaction to past events. The study is the first to show the ability to selectively remove a memory and predictably reactivate it by stimulating nerves in the brain at frequencies that are known to weaken and strengthen the connections between nerve cells, called synapses.