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MIT Finds Cure For Fear

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fear-itself dept.

Doom con runs away writes "MIT biochemists have identified a molecular mechanism behind fear, and successfully cured it in mice, according to an article in the journal Nature Neuroscience. They did this by inhibiting a kinase, an enzyme that change proteins, called Cdk5, which facilitates the extinction of fear learned in a particular context."

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  1. Re:Bad idea. by dosius · · Score: 0, Troll

    And you think Dubya wouldn't love to be able to just use nothing but foot troops in waves as cannon fodder in some perverted plan to send wave after wave of them at the "A-rabs" in some scheme about dying for the (fundie pseudo-Christian) faith?

    I can just imagine him doing it too.

    -uso.

    --
    What you hear in the ear, preach from the rooftop Matthew 10.27b
  2. Re:Army sponsored! by oizfar · · Score: 0, Troll

    exactly what we need - recruit the poor and disadvantaged, brainwash them to demonize the enemy, then inject them full of fear-inhibiting drugs to make sure they fight ruthlessly