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Health See other Health Articles Title: scientists find way to wipe out traumatic memories Painful memories from the past can take a severe toll on a healthy and peaceful life. Although it’s often advised to come out of painful memories and live life with joy, it may not be that simple. But UCLA life scientists have now found a way they claim would help erase past trauma from our minds. Traumatic events such as accidents, war experiences or serious illnesses create a fearful memory that can last a lifetime and have a debilitating effect on a person's life. Now scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, claim to have found a way to erase painful memories and post-traumatic stress. "I think we will be able to alter memories someday to reduce the trauma from our brains," the Daily Mail quoted study's senior author, David Glanzman, a UCLA professor of integrative biology and physiology and of neurobiology, as saying. “Not in the immediate future, but I think we will be able to go into one's brain, identify the location of the memory of a traumatic experience and try to dampen it down. “We can do this in culture, and there is no essential difference between the synapse in culture and the synapse in your brain.” Long-term memories can be erased Glanzman and colleagues said they discovered a link between PKM (protein kinase M), a protein associated with memory, and recollections of disturbing incidents. According to the research, the long-term memory for sensitisation in the marine snail can be erased by inhibiting the activity of PKM, which is a member of the class known as protein kinase C (PKC). The research team reports that they have eliminated, or at least substantially weakened, a long-term memory in both the marine snail known as Aplysia and neurons in a Petri dish. "We found that if we inhibit PKM in the marine snail, we will erase the memory for long-term sensitisation," Glanzman said. "In addition, we can erase the long-term change at a single synapse that underlies long-term memory in the snail," he stated. Research has the potential to treat other memory disorders The researchers believe the breakthrough could also help treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as drug addiction, in which memory plays an important role, and perhaps the long-term memory robbing disorders like Alzheimer's disease. "Almost all the processes that are involved in memory in the snail also have been shown to be involved in memory in the brains of mammals," said Glanzman. Funded by Senator Jacob Javits Award in the Neurosciences from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and by the National Institute of Mental Health, the UCLA study was published in the April 27 issue of Journal of Neuroscience.
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Amasing, if true.
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