{"id":70732,"date":"2017-07-06T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/scientists-assert-they-will-soon-be-able-to-edit-human-memories"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T19:00:35","slug":"scientists-assert-they-will-soon-be-able-to-edit-human-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/scientists-assert-they-will-soon-be-able-to-edit-human-memories","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Assert They Will Soon be Able to Edit Human Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-assert-they-will-soon-be-able-to-edit-human-memories.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have recently discovered two different types of memory use completely different processes in the same nerves, opening the way for a new pharmaceutical solution for treating anxiety and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondblue.org.au\/the-facts\/anxiety\/types-of-anxiety\/ptsd\">post-traumatic stress disorder<\/a> (PTSD).<\/p>\n<p>The find challenges earlier research that had suggested memories of traumatic events used the same nerves in the same ways, making them impossible to physically distinguish.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and McGill University analysed neurons from a marine snail called an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aplysia\"><em>Aplysia<\/em><\/a> in order to test a hypothesis explaining why memories of incidents surrounding a bad experience can themselves trigger anxiety.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-assert-they-will-soon-be-able-to-edit-human-memories\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-assert-they-will-soon-be-abl...-memories\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have recently discovered two different types of memory use completely different processes in the same nerves, opening the way for a new pharmaceutical solution for treating anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The find challenges earlier research that had suggested memories of traumatic events used the same nerves in the same ways, making them [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70732","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70815,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70732\/revisions\/70815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}