The latest research shows memories "lost" to amnesia aren't gone forever; they're just not accessible
Mice certainly aren't men, but they can teach us a lot about memories. And in the latest experiments, mice are helping to resolve a long-simmering debate about what happens to "lost" memories. Are they wiped out permanently, or are they still there, but just somehow out of reach?
Researchers in the lab of Susumu Tonegawa at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT conducted a series of studies using the latest light-based brain tracking techniques to show that memories in certain forms of amnesia aren't erased, but remain intact and potentially retrievable. Their findings, published Thursday in the journal Science , are based on experiments in mice, but they could have real implications for humans, too.
http://time.com/3899789/lost-memories-retrieved/
(Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Friday May 29 2015, @07:21PM
...but then-
Ah, screw it, make up your own punchline.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 29 2015, @08:27PM
> I figured out this out years ago...but then-
there wasn't room enough in the margin to document my discovery.
(Score: 1) by deadstick on Friday May 29 2015, @08:32PM
Oh, please, somebody, mod up...