Scientists from Japan and the United States have found that emotions connected to memories can be rewritten, thus making bad events in the past seem better and good things appear worse. The discovery of the mechanism behind the process helps to explain the power of current psychotherapeutic treatments for mental illnesses such as depression or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), they said, and could offer new avenues for psychiatric help. "These findings ...Thursday 28 August 2014
Bad Memories can be Overwritten, Claim Neuroscientists
Scientists from Japan and the United States have found that emotions connected to memories can be rewritten, thus making bad events in the past seem better and good things appear worse. The discovery of the mechanism behind the process helps to explain the power of current psychotherapeutic treatments for mental illnesses such as depression or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), they said, and could offer new avenues for psychiatric help. "These findings ...
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