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posted by martyb on Friday May 29 2015, @07:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the where-did-I-put-my-car-keys dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday May 29 2015, @11:41PM

    by Sulla (5173) on Friday May 29 2015, @11:41PM (#189899) Journal

    I would like to see this applied to cases of dementia where memory is affected. I have an elderly grandparent with a pretty severe case yet sometimes the connections work and memories are expressed. It would be nice if a technique was developed to sort of "flash" the brain a new file management system, a work around for corrupted/broken circuits.

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  • (Score: 0) by KGIII on Saturday May 30 2015, @02:49AM

    by KGIII (5261) on Saturday May 30 2015, @02:49AM (#189957) Journal

    I think we run Windows. Your grandparent (and Alzheimer's can be very bad) could probably start by running MBAM, cleaning the registry, and then performing a defrag. If this does not work then they should try a repair install as the problem may be win-rot. A bare metal re-install is nice but time consuming.

    I highly recommend that they consider something open source, Ubuntu should be a starting point but not a finish unless it suits their needs best. The LTS version is probably a good idea and a UPS should also be considered. Remember, that even with open source, security is a process -- not an application. Disable any unused ports and work from a least permission access policy with whitelisting the bare minimums. That may take more work but it is worth it in the end.

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