{"id":110785,"date":"2020-08-03T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/transcranial-stimulation-to-prevent-fear-memories-from-returning"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:03:00","slug":"transcranial-stimulation-to-prevent-fear-memories-from-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/transcranial-stimulation-to-prevent-fear-memories-from-returning","title":{"rendered":"Transcranial Stimulation to Prevent Fear Memories From Returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transcranial-stimulation-to-prevent-fear-memories-from-returning3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Repetitive transcranial memory stimulation applied to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modifies the negative effects of fear memories. The findings could have implications for the treatment of PTSD.<\/p>\n<p>Source: University of Bologna<\/p>\n<p>A research group from the University of Bologna has succeeded in modifying the negative effect of a returning memory that triggers fear, and developed a new non-invasive experimental protocol. The result of this study, published in the journal Current Biology, is an innovative protocol that combines fear conditioning\u2014a stimulus associated with something unpleasant that induces a negative memory\u2014and the neurostimulation of a specific site of the prefrontal cortex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Repetitive transcranial memory stimulation applied to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modifies the negative effects of fear memories. The findings could have implications for the treatment of PTSD. Source: University of Bologna A research group from the University of Bologna has succeeded in modifying the negative effect of a returning memory that triggers fear, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}