{"id":175755,"date":"2023-11-10T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/lost-childhood-memories-can-be-restored-using-light-scientists-discover"},"modified":"2023-11-10T10:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:10:34","slug":"lost-childhood-memories-can-be-restored-using-light-scientists-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/lost-childhood-memories-can-be-restored-using-light-scientists-discover","title":{"rendered":"Lost childhood memories can be restored using light, scientists discover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lost-childhood-memories-can-be-restored-using-light-scientists-discover3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How early is your first memory?<\/p>\n<p>For many of us, it is difficult to remember much of what went on before the age of two. But a new study from Trinity College Dublin has found that this memory loss might be preventable and reversible, with light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInfantile amnesia is the most ubiquitous form of \u2018forgetting,\u2019\u201d Tomas Ryan, an associate professor at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and senior author of the paper, told <em>Newsweek<\/em>. \u201cDespite its widespread relevance, little is known about the biological conditions underpinning this amnesia. As a society, we assume infant forgetting is an unavoidable fact of life, so we pay little attention to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How early is your first memory? For many of us, it is difficult to remember much of what went on before the age of two. But a new study from Trinity College Dublin has found that this memory loss might be preventable and reversible, with light. \u201cInfantile amnesia is the most ubiquitous form of \u2018forgetting,\u2019\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175755","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}