Thursday, 7 August 2008

Minimizing Traumatic Response To Bad Memories

�UC Irvine researchers hold identified the brain chemical mechanism that switches off traumatic feelings associated with bad memories, a finding that could pb to the development of drugs to treat panic disorders.





Scientists from UCI and the University of Muenster in Germany found that a small brain protein called neuropeptide S is involved in erasing traumatic responses to adverse memories by working on a tiny grouping of neurons inside the amygdala where those memories are stored.





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