{"id":71950,"date":"2017-08-15T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/scientists-think-they-might-soon-be-able-to-edit-human-memories"},"modified":"2017-08-15T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:22:24","slug":"scientists-think-they-might-soon-be-able-to-edit-human-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/scientists-think-they-might-soon-be-able-to-edit-human-memories","title":{"rendered":"Scientists think they might soon be able to edit human memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-think-they-might-soon-be-able-to-edit-human-memories2.jpg\"><\/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\">Aplysia<\/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:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2017\/07\/scientists-think-they-might-soon-be-able-to-edit-human-memories?utm_content=buffer77806&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2017\/07\/scientists-think-they...ign=buffer<\/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":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71950","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}