From the August 2019 issue of Massachusetts General Hospital's Mind, Mood, & Memory (MMM)
Stimulating Certain Parts of the Brain May Boost or Diminish Memories
New research suggests that one day memories may be manipulated to enhance the good ones and minimize the bad.
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Do you have a frightening memory that still causes anxiety and stress? Are there joyous recollections you’d love to enjoy evenÊmore? In a study led by Steve Ramirez, PhD, a neuroscientist at Boston University, researchers demonstrated just how pliable memories are by stimulating certain parts of the hippocampus, a part of the brain that plays […]