Erasing fear memories

March 8, 2010 - Posted by admin

A drug free, non-invasive method for semi-permanently blocking the return of fear memories in humans is reported in this week’s Nature. The finding may have important implications for the clinical treatment of fear-related disorders.

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3 Comments

  1. Cierra1985 says:

    ABA FTW

    ... on July March 8th, 2010
  2. xjparker says:

    That’s correct. It’s a very subtle thing to get across, which I struggled a bit with when producing this video. The difference is literally all in the timing: simply by showing this “fear reminder” a few minutes before doing normal extinction training, the reconsolidation window is opened up which allows the fear memory to be re-written.

    ... on July March 8th, 2010
  3. PBDPBD says:

    This is a bit confusing. So, you pair a yellow square with a shock, causing a fear. Then to erase the memory, you show the yellow square without a shock once, then wait a while, and repeatedly show the yellow square without a shock again? So the only difference from other methods is that in other methods you skip showing the yellow square once, and jump right in to showing it repeatedly?

    ... on July March 8th, 2010