Monday, November 3, 2008

Eternal Sunshine is Today

It is Monday morning, and I woke up before the sun to get started on this week. That's never a great sign.

Other than that, though, I wanted to share this with you - the advent of Eternal Sunshine. A quote from the article summary, published in the journal Neuron:

"Inducible and Selective Erasure of Memories in the Mouse Brain via Chemical-Genetic Manipulation"
"Rapid and selective erasures of certain types of memories in the brain would be desirable under certain clinical circumstances. By employing an inducible and reversible chemical-genetic technique, we find that transient αCaMKII overexpression at the time of recall impairs the retrieval of both newly formed one-hour object recognition memory and fear memories, as well as 1-month-old fear memories. "

You don't have to read the whole thing, but it is pretty interesting if you have a few extra minutes.

Deleting memories like old files on your hardrive...
The title of my first book?
When We Became PostCyborg??

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