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Enzyme Enhances, Erases Long-Term Memories in Rats; Can Restore Even Old, Fading Memories...
www.sciencedaily.com ^ | Mar. 7, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 03/08/2011 1:18:04 PM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 03/08/2011 1:18:11 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Can they just erase the crappy memories? ;-)


2 posted on 03/08/2011 1:20:21 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Red Badger

Now if they could just find one for the short ter....

What?


3 posted on 03/08/2011 1:21:29 PM PST by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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To: Red Badger

Wonder how they know what rats remember?


4 posted on 03/08/2011 1:21:49 PM PST by Jukeman
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To: Pining_4_TX

They might erase too much.......oops!........


5 posted on 03/08/2011 1:21:56 PM PST by Red Badger (How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
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To: Jukeman

It’s in the article.........


6 posted on 03/08/2011 1:23:28 PM PST by Red Badger (How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
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To: Jukeman

They test them.


7 posted on 03/08/2011 1:25:05 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Red Badger

Ha, ha, yes, being the crabby old coot that I am, I am suspicious of wild, new technology. I would never trust a Star Trek transporter - one might arrive all rearranged incorrectly.


8 posted on 03/08/2011 1:25:41 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: swain_forkbeard

“They test them”.

Essay or multiple choice?


9 posted on 03/08/2011 1:29:09 PM PST by Jukeman
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I think they need to do further tests on Harry Reid. He has shown a highly selective memory as have most of the other rats in congress.


10 posted on 03/08/2011 1:30:07 PM PST by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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Now I understand what the aliens are after....

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11 posted on 03/08/2011 1:30:46 PM PST by Klemper
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To: Red Badger

I always knew democrats were deficient in an important enzyme.


12 posted on 03/08/2011 1:32:28 PM PST by azhenfud (The government is not best which secures life and property-there is a more valuable thing-manhood.)
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To: Steamburg

Perhaps we could use this technology to erase all memory of the Obamacare debacle in all the RATS in DC. LOL.


13 posted on 03/08/2011 1:32:49 PM PST by w1andsodidwe (Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
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To: azhenfud

To a Liberal, history started at breakfast this morning.......Ann Coulter.......


14 posted on 03/08/2011 1:34:19 PM PST by Red Badger (How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
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To: Steamburg

Harry ‘The Rat’ Reid. Seems like I saw him box way back when.


15 posted on 03/08/2011 1:35:05 PM PST by Jukeman
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To: Red Badger
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Repeat after me: The Gulags never existed....

16 posted on 03/08/2011 1:35:44 PM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: swain_forkbeard

Rat SAT?...........


17 posted on 03/08/2011 1:35:44 PM PST by Red Badger (How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
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A long-time friend of mine gave me a great line about our memory lapses as we get older. He said:

It’s not a ‘loss of memory’ problem, it’s a ‘memory retrieval’ problem. A ‘lost’ memory is really not lost at all; it’s there, but the retrieval system doesn’t work so well sometimes, in our ‘sunset’ years.

His idea seems to make scientific sense, as this report claims, in as much as certain enzymes can help ‘restore’ memories. And, even without the aid of science, we ourselves sometimes find a ‘lost’ memory - sometimes even very unexpectedly and sometimes out of context of anything we are doing at the moment.

They had to still be there, and not missing at all, in order to be ‘found’ again.

We should learn to start referring to this whole issue as the issue of “misplaced” memories.


18 posted on 03/08/2011 1:38:29 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Jukeman

They remember how to get back to Madison to vote.


19 posted on 03/08/2011 1:38:34 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Pining_4_TX

I can see a use for this enzyme in terrorist interrogations used along with sodium pentothal..............


20 posted on 03/08/2011 1:39:42 PM PST by Red Badger (How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
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