ASU Researcher Shows How Stress Hormones Promote Brain's Building of Negative Memories
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 12:31
in Psychology & Sociology
A team from ASU and UC Irvine has discovered a key component to better understanding how traumatic memories may be strengthened in women. Their study's findings suggest that developing clinical treatments that could lower norepinephrine levels immediately following a traumatic event might offer a way to prevent this memory-enhancing mechanism from occurring.