Scientists Erase Specific Memories in Mice

HealthDay at Yahoo ^ | 10/22/08 | Alan Mozes

[NormsRevenge]

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- It sounds like science fiction, by scientists say it might one day be possible to erase undesirable memories from the brain, selectively and safely.

Using a complex genetic approach, U.S. and Chinese researchers believe they have done just that in mice, but the feat is far from being tested on humans.

Study co-author Joe Z. Tsien, co-director of the Brain & Behavior Discovery Institute at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, says the "work reveals a molecular mechanism of how [memory deletion] can be done quickly and without doing damage to brain cells."

The finding is published in the Oct. 23 issue of Neuron.

Humans plagued by painful memories have long wished for a way to eject them from the brain. The concept was the premise of the popular 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which two former lovers pay a "memory-erasure" service to expunge the unhappy affair from their minds.

To explore the possibility of safely carving away bits of memory, the study authors first focused on the activity of a common protein found only in the brain, called CaMKII.

In both mice and people, this enzyme is often referred to as the "memory molecule" because of its key role in facilitating brain cell communication -- especially people's ability to learn and retain information.

[Izzy Dunne]

What?

[NormsRevenge]

EEEK!

[Crazieman]

The conservatism will be purged from our minds in the new Obamunist USSA.

[Centurion2000]

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- It sounds like science fiction, by scientists say it might one day be possible to erase undesirable memories from the brain, selectively and safely.

Here will be Obama's top military technological priority if elected.

[Red Badger]

When will they come up with a way to PLANT memories?.......I’d like some of Angelina Jolie..........

[djf]

We can remember it for you wholesale!!
Philip K. Dick

(the short story basis for Total Recall)

[KarlInOhio]

I invented it a few years ago, right around the time when George W. Bush took over the White House from his father.

[Carley]

Wonder if this would benefit anorexics.

[wally_bert]

Maybe SHADO has excess amnesia pills or Torchwood can sell the rights to mass produce retcon.

[Gamecock]

There is this one psycho I used to date, can I erase that memory?

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

[Ancesthntr]

All of you who think that the Obamessiah will rush this technology to perfection and use it on us are just full of it, paranoid nuts of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

Memories can be far more effectively and cheaply erased with $0.50 of lead.

[Knitebane]

Sheesh. What worthless research.

Every college student already knows about the drug that erases memories.

And it comes in kegs and 1.75 liter bottles.

[Maceman]

What happens when some government authority decides that you need to “forget” certain things that you may have thought were real, but which the Bureau of Public Awareness has decided never really happened?

(Forget you ever saw this.)

[UB355]

The memory of my first marriage is long ago wiped out.

[theDentist]

Scientists Erase Specific Memories in Mice

Can they try it on my girlfriend? She remembers every single mistake since before we even met....

[NormsRevenge]

5 year old piece from Molecular Intervention online mag

Brandeis University

CaMKII, an Enzyme on the Move: Regulation of Temporospatial Localization
http://molinterv.aspetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/3/7/386

Warning: pretty medicalese .. :-)

[SiVisPacemParaBellum]

Rats have brains?

They obviously haven't surfed DU.

[rusty millet]

Who Moved My Cheese?

[USMCPOP]

"Humans plagued by painful memories have long wished for a way to eject them from the brain."

Some have, some have not. Age and shock have a way of taking care of some pain, but not that in the heart.

Humor helps.

[Elle Bee]

Rose Law Firm billing records?

Nobama's birth certificate?

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[NormsRevenge]

God Bless.

[Dallas59]

2014:

Obama is our Dear Leader...There has never been another....Michell is the Mother of our Country...The Year is 5...

[50sDad]

FNORD

[Terry Mross]

If O wins can I get some specific memories erased?

Maybe that’s what’s happened to Biden.

[massgopguy]

Harrison Bergeron.

[eeevil conservative]

specific memories?

could these maybe be memories of sermons given my one’s pastor?

just askin’

;-)

[Mac from Cleveland]

My condolences, sir.

Mac
USMC 1978-1986

[spetznaz]

LOL. True. However, the Keg special does have the disadvantage of wiping out EVERY memory that was formed during a specific time period, thus this new invention might have its uses for when one needs to target specific bits of memory. For instance, when Obama makes you send 1,000 US to his campaign ....

[Maceman]

FNORD? Does that mean something?

I thought it was the sound Felix Ungar used to make when he was clearing his sinuses.

[Diogenesis]

[tophat9000]

Coming tools for the new grand Uber-O admin?

[mowowie]

I would love to forget my ex-girlfriend.
She often shows up in my nightmares then i wake up all pissed and grumpy.

[showme_the_Glory]

Make em crave peanut butter.

[Gator113]

I love it!!!!!

So a time will come that after a guy gets a divorce, he will be able to erase the entire experience from memory.

Now, if they could only put back good memories as we age.

[Gator113]

God bless Pop.

[surely_you_jest]

Your Buddhist son, a Marine NCO, was KIA liberating an Islamic country.

My FRiend, you are a true American.

My sympathies for your loss.

USAF, Retired.

[50sDad]

"Fnord is the typographic representation of disinformation or irrelevant information intending to misdirect, with the implication of a conspiracy. The word was coined as a nonsensical term with religious undertones in the Discordian religious text Principia Discordia (1965) by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill, but was popularized by The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975) of satirical conspiracy fiction novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson."

FNORD - Wikipedia. Also applicable, the movie "THEY LIVE" in which secret messages designed to lull you into complacency and servitude are on billboards everywhere in special paint only your subconcious sees.