Ever wished you could delete the memory of an ex-boyfriend, a bad relationship, a disastrous blind date? Well, science might just be catching up to the movies.Dr. Joe Z. Tsien of the Georgia School of Medicine successfully erased specific memories from a mouse's brain, leaving its other memories completely intact and undamaged.
Basically, Tsien has found that it's possible to pinpoint a memory at the moment that the subject (the mouse, for now) recalls it. By overworking a signaling protein in the brain at that instant, the memory can be physically eliminated -- in the case of the mice, the unpleasant memory of having its tiny paw shocked with a mild electrical current.
While the procedure has proven successful on mice, Tsien says there's still much work to be done before it can be tested on humans.
While we're all for the removal of traumatic memories from mice minds, we're a little wary of the effects that this kind of procedure might have on humans. What if, in the effort to erase to a painful relationship, you somehow wiped out all of 12th grade English? We'd hate to accidentally forget the Cliffs Notes for "Hamlet."














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Friday 24 October
By Wolf King
maybe we how can use this to forget painful memores as death of loved 1s
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Saturday 25 October
By Meredith
This is a terrible idea.
The only reason that bad memories, bad experiences, exist is for us to grow. We learn from those blunders to help us imporve. Erasing them and pretending to live you entire life not remembering those memories makes life not only bland, but somewhat uncompelling.
That said, if you were molested/raped/traumatized/etc, and those memories only cripple you, then it's okay to get rid of those memories.
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