{"id":10640,"date":"2017-02-19T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T01:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/?p=10640"},"modified":"2019-02-18T20:57:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T04:57:47","slug":"remove-mmry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/co-lab\/pwi-co-lab-staff\/remove-mmry\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Discovered How to Find Your Bad Memories and DELETE Them From Your Mind For Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening Insights<\/h2>\n

New medical breakthrough could be used to help rape sufferers or soldiers with PTSD<\/h3>\n
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Pocket Wisdom Insights (PWI) invites you to explore the following Co-Lab Blog<\/strong>.<\/em>
\n This blog features parts of an influential and insightful article written outside of the PWI\u00a0Co-Lab<\/strong><\/em>
\n by Andrew Gregory<\/a> on February 19, 2017, published by Mirror.co.uk<\/a>.<\/em>
\n We have republished this content in respect of the author\u2019s vision, message and research.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Informational Insights<\/h2>\n

It is the medical breakthrough which could cheer us up – boffins have found a way to banish bad memories for our brains forever.<\/p>\n

In news that will be particularly good for England football fans, experts have developed a way to delete unwanted memories from the brain.<\/p>\n

The process mirrors the storyline in the hit movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind although it fails to bring happiness to Jim Carrey\u2019s<\/a> character.<\/p>\n

University of Toronto<\/a> experts have discovered that although there are millions of brain cells in the brain, only a handful are linked to bad memories.<\/p>\n

And in groundbreaking studies on mice, they were able to pinpoint those brain cells associated with \u201cfear or threat\u201d memories – and delete them.<\/p>\n

Crucially, the researchers found they could wipe away single, specific memories while leaving other memories intact.<\/p>\n

The next step will be testing the treatment in people.<\/p>\n

Prof Sheena Josselyn, who led the research, told the world\u2019s biggest conference in Boston: \u201cThese findings offer proof-of-principle that treatments do not need to affect the entire body or even entire brain.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur results indicate that a critical component of a fear or memory may reside in a small portion of neurons and that treatments could be targeted to just these neurons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Memory is located in various parts of the brain.<\/p>\n

But Prof Josselyn\u2019s team found that neurons – the brain cells – that are encoded with \u201cfear or threat\u201d memories are in one part of the brain while other parts of the memory are elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Working with mice in the lab, they targeted just those cells chemically – disrupting their ability to keep that unpleasant memory alive.<\/p>\n

Prof Josselyn said: \u201cThose neurons that we selected were hugely important to that memory, because genetically ablating just this small portion of neurons was sufficient to disrupt this specific memory, as if this specific memory had been erased.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erasing bad memories could eventually help rape survivors or returning soldiers suffering from PTSD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Possibilities for Consideration<\/h2>\n

But there could be ethical hurdles. Some ethicists believe that deleting memories deletes a vital part of a person\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n

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Take a moment and examine\u2026<\/h3>\n