Science gives way to new

Scientists try to find a way to help the brain get out of fear, obsessed with painful memories.

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There is a fact that not all memories are beautiful, there are memories that make us afraid, obsessed and want to forget. Therefore, scientists try to find the most effective brain treatment for the brain to help patients especially those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) get out of sign. sad memories.

Experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) have initially found a few new factors that help this study. That is how the neurons of the brain encode memory , filling the old memories. Conducting research on mice, scientists found that personal memories in mice were stored in the hippocampus hippocampus area of ​​the brain.

First, they genetically modified a mouse so that when its hippocampal cells were activated, they would attach a protein to the body to be able to study the transition later. Then they locked the mouse in a familiar cage. The next day, they took it to another cage with scent and black wall.

Choose any time and scientists create a big shock with mice and attach new proteins to activate brain cells. Finally, they bring the mouse back to the old cage and watch.

Of course, this mouse, when coming back to the old cage, was a little surprised at this "house", it felt like it was strange to everything around. Simply put, scientists have created a new memory for this mouse.

Previously, scientists at the University of Washington (USA) have found that chemical compounds can be used to recover or even erase memories in mice (and maybe one day can be used in humans). .

At the same time, research by Emory University (USA) also found SR-8993 - a drug that will affect the opioid receptor of the brain, capable of blocking memory with fearful memories or as Latrunculin A has. effect delete memories one day later.

However, scientists believe that, whatever the drug, when it affects the brain, they can cause quite a serious side effect. Anyway, they continue to study to hope to help millions of people who are tormented by real obsession, fearful memories.