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Scientists Erase Specific Memories In Mice
Ostracus writes "It sounds like science fiction, but scientists say it might one day be possible to erase undesirable memories from the brain, selectively and safely. After exposing mice to emotionally powerful stimuli, such as a mild shock to their paws, the scientists then observed how well or poorly the animals subsequently recalled the particular trauma as their brain's expression of CaMKII was manipulated up and down. When the brain was made to overproduce CaMKII at the exact moment the mouse was prodded to retrieve the traumatic memory, the memory wasn't just blocked, it appeared to be fully erased."
Perhaps its already happening and no one remembers?
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
When do I get my own flashy-little-memory-messer-upper-thing?
being wiped by the cia, the nsa or homeland security, we've got the link to prove it.
ah, i feel vindicated. one of my paranoid thoughts is that people have their memories wiped of certain things they've done, knowing that science has reproduced it in mice means time travelers from the future could easily have been doing it for years now.
well, just as soon as the time machine gets proved to be possible. quantum physics is dangerously close to that with 'particles being everywhere all at once, until observed.' how can a quantum particle like a photon be everywhere all at once, until observed, unless time travel is also possible on the quantum level.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
has the ability to selectively forget anything inconvenient!
Smivs on the intertubes!
Perhaps its already happening and no one remembers?
Unexpect the expected!
All memory of Goatse could be erased! That has to count for SOMETHING.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
How abvout erasing the memory of the first time you had warm apple pie? Then, you get to try it for the first time every night.
I was thinking of something a little different... but whatever floats your boat, man.
Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
ethically underfunded governments
that about describes them all
Scientist: "Here, mouse, have some cheese."
[Mouse eats cheese]
Scientist: "Right, now forget about it completely."
[Waits 5 minutes]
Scientist: "Say, mouse, how was that oak-smoked camembert with chive and onion?"
Mouse: "Chive?"
Scientist: "Wow, it works."
You do not want a vacation on mars. You want to stay here and keep doing Sharon Stone.
No, it's not happening. That's insane. Besides, I'm sure there would be some after effects like brain damage.
No, it's not happening. That's insane. Besides, I'm sure there would be some after effects like brain damage.
No, it's not happening. That's insane. Besides, I'm sure there would be some after effects like brain damage.
Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
What did you just say?
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
...its the Haitian
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
Ah, so you caught the allegory. It wasn't unintended.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
... I call it Glenfiddich
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
I could get excited about The Phantom Menace all over again!
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
I can already erase memories. It's called whiskey.
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Squirrel
Brewers have been doing this for centuries.
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
Holly: I've just finished reading everything. I've now read everything that's been written by anyone ever.
...snip...
Lister: Would you go away?
Holly: You know what the worst book ever written by anyone ever was?
Lister: I don't care!
Holly: "Football, It's a Funny Old Game" by Kevin Keegan.
Holly: Well, only if you're not busy. Would you mind erasing some of my memory banks?
Lister: What for?
Holly: Well, if you erase all the Agatha Christie novels from my memory bank, I can read 'em again tonight.
Lister: How do I do it?
Holly: Just type, "Holmem. Password override. The novels Christie, Agatha." Then press erase.
Lister: I've done it.
Holly: Done what?
Lister: Erased Agatha Christie.
Holly: Who's she, then?
Lister: Holly, you just asked me to erase all Agatha Christie novels from your memory.
Holly: Why should I do that? I've never heard of her.
Lister: You've never heard of her because I've just erased her from your smegging memory.
Holly: What'd you do that for?
Lister: You asked me to!
Holly: When?
Lister: Just now!
Holly: I don't remember this.
"Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as the abuses of power." -- James Madison
what did yooooooooo aaaa .... *drools over kybord having forgotten how to type*
Patrick Starfish, is that you?
Well, technically it is a form of brain damage. Though I'm sure it'd be on par with, say, a night of heavy drinking.
This would be a waste on me. I couldn't remember anything for them to trace what to erase anyhow.
Heck, I can't even remember my login.
I think this is how all the dupes get into the front page.
You are the scariest person I've ever encountered on Slashdot, that is an achievement beyond all other achievements.
After reading your posts I see why people would want the option to have traumatic memories erased.
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
Goatse, Tubgirl, My brothers wedding, that chick in 8th grade who weighed about 200pounds...
BRING ON THE UNDER FUNDED UNETHICAL GOVERNMENTS!
Me failed English...
FreeBSD over Linux. If my comments seem odd, this may explain...
Slashcomma,org is actually a great site with well-written summaries, intelligent comments, and working CSS. Heaven knows how I mixed it up with this site.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Did they attempt to see if it still worked if the mice were wearing sunglasses?
I see what you did there.
Good. Cheap. Fast. Pick Two.
"Shift."--you put the closing quote after the period.
Only if the phrase in quotes is a complete sentence. Of course, you could be illiterate or an American.