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19-11-2021, 01:54 PM
Katy Kelly about an hour ago
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few things stick in the memory of those who watched the 1997 blockbuster Men In Black like the Neuralyzer. It’s a fictional tool that, once directed at a hapless witness to supernatural or alien phenomena, emits a quick burst of light that wipes away the memory of whatever they saw.
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a recent study from Kyoto University has made things a little more complicated with their recent research on mice. The findings were published on November 11, in a paper for Science titled “Stepwise synaptic plasticity events drive the early phase of memory consolidation” — the scientists managed to relax newly created synapses (the neural connections responsible for forming memories). The study involved mice learning that if they entered a dark chamber annexed to their bright habitat, they would receive an electric shock. Mice learned that they would be shocked upon entering, and thus became cautious and fearful around the dark chamber. Those that had their memories undone with the treatment would instead bound into the dark chamber happily as though they had never been exposed to it.
They achieved this result by using a protein derived from sea anenomes that produces destructive oxygen atoms in response to light exposure. This protein was introduced to the mice by way of a harmless virus, after editing the protein to reduce the damaging effects from the oxygen atoms. Rather than damaging neural pathways, now they just relax them, preventing recently formed memories from being recalled.
New memories are created from experience, like the experience of the mice entering the dark room and receiving a shock. These memories are transferred through the brain via sleep, where they enter the long-term memory. In the case of this experiment, a mouse was injected with the modified SuperNova protein and had an optic fibre inserted into its brain to stimulate it with light. After introducing it to the shock chamber with other control mice, this mouse had its brain stimulated with light right after it was shocked so that the newly learned information would be deleted. After sleeping and returning to the room, it didn’t demonstrate fear as the other mice did.
More memory erasing experiments at: https://soranews24.com/2021/11/19/here-c...ith-light/
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few things stick in the memory of those who watched the 1997 blockbuster Men In Black like the Neuralyzer. It’s a fictional tool that, once directed at a hapless witness to supernatural or alien phenomena, emits a quick burst of light that wipes away the memory of whatever they saw.
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a recent study from Kyoto University has made things a little more complicated with their recent research on mice. The findings were published on November 11, in a paper for Science titled “Stepwise synaptic plasticity events drive the early phase of memory consolidation” — the scientists managed to relax newly created synapses (the neural connections responsible for forming memories). The study involved mice learning that if they entered a dark chamber annexed to their bright habitat, they would receive an electric shock. Mice learned that they would be shocked upon entering, and thus became cautious and fearful around the dark chamber. Those that had their memories undone with the treatment would instead bound into the dark chamber happily as though they had never been exposed to it.
They achieved this result by using a protein derived from sea anenomes that produces destructive oxygen atoms in response to light exposure. This protein was introduced to the mice by way of a harmless virus, after editing the protein to reduce the damaging effects from the oxygen atoms. Rather than damaging neural pathways, now they just relax them, preventing recently formed memories from being recalled.
New memories are created from experience, like the experience of the mice entering the dark room and receiving a shock. These memories are transferred through the brain via sleep, where they enter the long-term memory. In the case of this experiment, a mouse was injected with the modified SuperNova protein and had an optic fibre inserted into its brain to stimulate it with light. After introducing it to the shock chamber with other control mice, this mouse had its brain stimulated with light right after it was shocked so that the newly learned information would be deleted. After sleeping and returning to the room, it didn’t demonstrate fear as the other mice did.
More memory erasing experiments at: https://soranews24.com/2021/11/19/here-c...ith-light/
