Memories you evil, tame depression

Marijn Kroes, a neuroscientist at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands discovered through strategic timing ECT bursts, they targeted and delete patient could memory of a disturbing period in his life.

"We, memory reconsolidation, where memories from"intellectual storage"every time be taken, which is used to access them call and circuits is"rewritten"again in the course of time on the brain" was Kroes cited.

To achieve this, 42 patients were prescribed the ECT for severe clinical depression had two videos represent a car accident and on the other hand showed an assault.

The patients then received electro convulsive therapy.

A day later, as a multiple-choice memory test, patients were significantly worse at remembering information.

But researchers who administers ECT memory test 90 minutes after treatment, patients showed no difference in their ability, reminiscent of the two stories.

"This suggests that therapy the time-dependent process of reconsolidation, rather than cause sudden loss of memory blocks," added the researchers.

"This is also evidence that memories in the human brain to undergo, reconsolidation and a window of opportunity there to treat bad memories" added Daniela Schiller, a neuroscientist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

But the researchers explained, is more work necessary to know whether the technique works efficiently on older or more complex memories from real-life experiences.

"The ability to change these kind of memories, permanently novel, better treatments could lead" Kroes added.

The results of the study were published in the journal nature.

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