We are more likely to remember emotional experiences than neutral experiences, and deep brain stimulation using implanted electrodes reduces this memory effect and could be used to treat PTSD. There is a nature.
mind
January 16, 2023
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Deep brain stimulation can be used to reduce the emotional intensity of a person’s memories and may one day help tackle post-traumatic stress disorder.
Salman Qasim and his colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine in Mount Sinai, New York, investigated the link between emotion and memory by reanalyzing data from previous studies.. “We wanted to understand how the brain naturally strengthens the memory of certain events over others,” says Qasim.
In the study, 148 people…
